At 7.15 p.m. on i3th September, 1966, the vessel Commodore Charles H. Smith reported having picked up two survivors from a small ketch which they had then taken in tow. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 8.20 in a light west north westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was four hours after low water. She proceeded to the Nab tower, took the survivors off the Commodore Charles H. Smith and with the American ketch Erisca in tow, returned to Bembridge at n o'clock..