Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an open launch was burning flares about a mile and a half off shore near Milford-on- Sea. A light south-west wind was blowing with a slight sea. The weather was dull. At 2.35, at high water, the life boat S.G.E. put out. On reaching the position given she found the motor launch Flamingo, which had run out of fuel. She took the Flamingo in tow, brought her to Yarmouth, and reached her station at 4.30..