The Packet’s shipping correspondent, 78-year-old David Barnicoat, the only surviving member of the Falmouth lifeboat crew that took part in the search for the Darlwin in 1966, recalls the disaster that put Falmouth in the international spotlight. Despite the warnings, Darlwin left Fowey in a southwest force 7. The Falmouth lifeboat Crawford and Constance Coneybeare launched on service at 0550 hours on August 1 under the command of coxswain Bertram West. The lifeboat proceeded at speed towards Dodman Point but there was no sign of the boat, wreckage, or any survivors. "Later we went alongside the Fowey lifeboat, which transferred the body of 50-year-old Albert Russell.