Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.15 p.m.

on 6th November, 1965, a fisherman told the honorary secretary that a wildfowler was waving for assistance on South Binness Island. After receiving confirmation of the report from the Fishery Officer the IRB was launched at 4.30 on a flooding tide in a moderate gusting to fresh easterly breeze and slight sea. The IRB searched South Binness Island but found no trace of the wildfowler. Eventually the wildfowler's punt was found in a water-logged condition moored to drainpipes on Nap Island. Footprints leading to South Binness Rythe were also found.

After searching Long Island the IRB went to North Binness Island and found two canoes with a boy on board each of them. The youngsters were unable to make any headway towards Storehouse Quay in the strong wind, so they were taken on board the IRB. With the two canoes alongside she returned to her station, which was reached at 6.30 p.m.

It was later established that the wildfowler usually kept his punt moored to the drainpipes and made his way ashore in a dinghy, and on this occasion the signals for assistance came from the boys in the canoes, not from the wildfowler..