Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 8 p.m. on i3th August, 1967, thesecond coxswain was informed that a flare had been seen inside Tusker rock.

The motor vessel Duke of Rothsay and St. David's coastguard also reported seeing the flare. The life-boat Douglas Hyde slipped her moorings at 8.30 in a gentle south westerly breeze and a calm sea. The tide was flooding. The lifeboat found the motor yacht Ebenezer with two people on board half a mile south of Splaugh Rock. The Ebenezer was proceeding slowly under her own power. The life-boat escorted her until she was about half a mile from Rosslare when the engine failed. The life-boat took the Ebenezer in tow and returned to her station at 9.50..