Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized near the West Princess buoy.

The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 2.22 in a freshening easterly breeze with a rough sea and an ebb tide. The life-boat picked up two men and a woman. The men were both uncon- scious, and artificial respiration was carried out continuously aboard the life-boat, which landed the woman at 2.55. Artificial respiration was con- tinued ashore, but neither of the men recovered. The woman was taken to hospital, and the life-boat put out again to search for a third man, who had also been on board. She could not find him and returned to her station at six o'clock. The woman, who was the sole survivor, lost her husband and her twin brother in this disaster. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..