Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles from Port Isaac. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat came up with the motor fishing vessel Eleanor Anne of Padstow with engine trouble. The fishing vessels crew of two were embarked, and with the vessel in tow the lifeboat returned to her station at 11.45..