Plymouth, Devon - At 6.43 p.m. on 10th June, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on rocks between Picklecombe and Cremyll.

At 7.3 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her moorings in a light north easterly breeze with a corresponding sea. It was four hours after high water. The lifeboat's boarding boat went inshore and took off one child. It then went inshore again and took off the other child who had managed to reach the beach. Both children were taken on board the life-boat and landed at Millbay where an ambulance waswaiting. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.10..