EIGHT ABOARD YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 12.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Epomeo had engine trouble and would probably need help. At 12.30 the coastguard confirmed this, giving her position as about four miles south of the Needles. There was a moderate northwesterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flood tide. At 12.42 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched.

About 2j hours later the Epomeo, which had a crew of eight, was towed by the life-boat from her position about 15 miles south of the Needles to Yarmouth.

The life-boat returned to her station at 6.10..