At 8.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 12-foot open boat Karen of Porthallow was overdue. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 8.40 in a moderate north north westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat searched the area from the Manacles to the Dodman, a radius of 20 miles. The German motor vessel Oberg of Hamburg radioed she had picked up the missing boat with two youths on board seven miles east of Lizard. The life-boat contacted the Oberg seven miles off Blackhead and took the two youths and their dinghy on board..