At 11.30 a.m. on 2/th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the Owers lightvessel. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11.44 m a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat embarked the injured man and returned to her station at 2.15 p.m. where he was transferred to a waiting ambulance..