Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.26 p.m. on I9th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Zeemansblik was aground two miles west by north of St. Catherine's Point. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched at 10.43 in a moderate eastnorth- east breeze and smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat received a message that the crew of five of the Zeemansblik had been taken off by a boat from the coastal tanker Esso Jersey. The life-boat went alongside the Esso Jersey and took off the five survivors. The lifeboat then returned to her station arriving at 2.15 a.m. and the five men were provided with clothing and accommodation by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society..