Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.12 p.m. on 2nd May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was firing red flares one mile north of the life-boat station. At 7.45 the life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane was launched in a moderate south easterly breeze with a corresponding sea. It was high water. The life-boat came up with the yacht Rosemary, with two people on board, south of Gulland rock. Her engine had broken down. She was taken in tow to Padstow. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.15..