Dover, Kent - At 6.46 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Radiant was in difficulties with engine trouble between Folkestone and Dover. The life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her moorings at 6.58. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the cruiser with her stern almost awash.

The life-boat crew were told that the propeller had struck a large piece of driftwood and broken off and a bracket had pierced the hull through which water was pouring. The cruiser was taken in tow to Dover and the life-boat returned to her station at 10 o'clock..