Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 12.26 a.m. on i2th July, 1967, a red flare was reported near Barton-on-Sea. At 1.43 the life-boat. The Earl and Countess Howe, slipped her moorings. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found a small fishing boat with engine trouble. This was fishing boat Swallow with two people on board. She was taken in tow to Mudeford and the life-boat returned to her moorings at 4.45..