Coverack, Cornwall - At 9.52 p.m.

on 9th April, 1969, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy on passage from Falmouth to Coverack was overdue.

At 10 o'clock the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched in a light south south westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour before high water. A flashing light was seen three miles east of the lifeboat station and the dinghy, with one man on board, was taken in tow to Coverack. The life-boat returned to her station at 11 o'clock..