Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 1.35 p.m. on 9th April. 1967, the British Rail steamer Faringford informed the honorary secretary that a small dismasted sailing boat was drifting rapidly towards Hurst. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at 1.39 in a strong north easterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to the Hurst Narrows and found a dismasted sailing dinghy with a crew of two. The life-boat towed her to Yarmouth and returned to her station at 2.30..