At 5.15 p.m. on 20th August, 1966, a cabin cruiser was reported in distress in the Rock Channel. At 5.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings. The sea was calm. It was four hours after high water. The cabin cruiser Comet was towed to a safe anchorage, and the life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.35..