LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY MINESWEEPER AGROUND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.2 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a minesweeper had been reported ashore near St. Catherine's Point. There was a light northerly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 8.8 on an ebbing tide. She made for the position given, and at 8.27 the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Eskimo and a tug were also searching. At ten o'clock the minesweeper was found ashore half a mile east of St. Catherine's Point, and five minutes later the life-boat came alongside. She stood by until the tug had a line aboard the minesweeper and then returned to her station, which she reached at 4.25. The coastguard informed the honorary secretary at 6.11 that the minesweeper had been refloated..