Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.38 p.m. on 26th September, 1965, a motor cruiser was seen firing flares in the North Channel near Shingle Bank. At 4.48 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings with the second coxswain in command. There was a slight southerly breeze and smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Salonique II, with four people on board. The Salonique II had engine trouble and was taken in tow. The life-boat returned to her station at 6 p.m..