Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.52 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, it was learnt that the Nab pilot cutter was trying to tow a dismasted yacht. The assistance of the life-boat was requested. There was a fresh west-south-westerly breeze, a choppy sea and the tide was flooding. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 7.5 and fifteen minutes later the coxswain reported that the pilot cutter was closing the shore for the life-boat to take the yacht in tow. The crew of the yacht Mark Twain of Gosport, a man and two boys, were aboard the cutter and were transferred to the life-boat which then took the Mark Twain in tow to St. Helen's quay. The life-boat reached her station at 9.30 p.m..