At 2 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four youths in a hired rowing dinghy were missing. At 2.37 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was five hours after low water. The life-boat intercepted a message between the tender Offshore I and North Foreland radio stating that the four youths, who had rowed out to the private transmitting station Radio London, were on board the tender. The life-boat met the Offshore I and took the four boys on board. She returned to her station, arriving at 3.37..