St. Helier, Jersey - At 5.36 p.m. on ipth October, 1966, Jersey radio reported that the French trawler Jouet des Vagues, of St. Malo, required assistance as she was in difficulties in heavy seas, about nine miles west of La Corbiere lighthouse.

The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded at 6.53 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was three hours after low water. She found the casualty, whose engine had failed, rolling heavily, but she did not appear to be in any immediate danger. A line which was fired from the life-boat across the trawler carried on across the m.v. Eilenburg which was standing by. The trawler refused to accept the towline from Eilenburg as her sister ship was steaming to the scene. The life-boat stood by until she arrived and the tow had been established. The trawler was then towed to St. Malo and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.25 a.m. on 20th October..