Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.23 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing boat Cameo with a man and a boy on board was overdue from Langstone harbour. She had left the harbour at 12.30 on a fishing trip and had been due to return at 4.30. The Cameo was fitted with an outboard motor and had last been seen at three o'clock at the boom defence at Dolphin Gap with engine trouble. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 9.18 in a strong north-easterly breeze and a rough sea. It was two hours after low water. A cabin cruiser, which had gone to the help of the Cameo when her engine had broken down, reported that the sailing boat was proceeding towards Langstone fairway buoy under sail. At 11.4 the life-boat found the Cameo and took her in tow to Langstone harbour.

Because of the weather the life-boat did not return to her station but made for Cowes, where she was moored at 2.15.

She was rehoused on the 15th November..