Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched in a moderate north westerly wind with a calm sea. The tide was flooding.

The IRB came up with the yacht Minoru with five people on board.

The yacht had run out of fuel and was drifting dangerously towards the shore. The IRB stood by the boat to await the arrival of the Padstow life-boat James and Catherine Macfarland which had launched at 7.50.

The life-boat took the Minoru in tow to Padstow. The IRB returned to her station at 9 o'clock, and the life-boat at 11.15..