Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.

Eight minutes later the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a rough sea.

There was a gentle south-westerly wind and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the position and found that a motor boat had taken the yacht Solveig, with a crew of three, in tow. The life- boat escorted the yacht for a time and then returned to her station, arriving at 9.40. Rewards to the crew, £7. 4s .; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3. 5s..