Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.

She put out an anchor to await help from another fishing vessel. The weather was deteriorating, however, and a north-westerlv gale was forecast, so Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane was launched to her aid at 1129 under the command of Coxswain Trevor England and with a diver on board. Lamorna was taken in tow to Newquay where the diver, Mr A. Bradlev, went overboard and cleared the fouled rope, freeing the fishing boat's propeller. photograph by courtesy of B. S. White.