RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.

At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33) was launched from Lizard, Cadgwith, Cornwall. She came up with the 42-foot sloop at Bass point and with difficulty the Carillion with a crew of nine was taken in tow to the life-boat's slipway (see page 216).

The fire service was summoned to pump the yacht dry and it was then decided that the lifeboat should take her to Falmouth where berthing arrangement had been made. The casualty with three firemen and a compressor on board left the slipway in tow of the life-boat at about 11 o'clock. The Falmouth life-boat honorary secretary in the meantime had been informed that the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat was making for Falmouth with the Carillion, and the Falmouth life-boat John and Lucy Cordingley, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 1.30 a.m. to meet them at the harbour entrance. The Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat returned to her station at 6.50..