At 3.30 p.m. on 28th July, 1967, while the second coxswain was returning from Ireland's Eye in his own launch, he saw two flares fired behind the island. He returned to the life-boat and summoned five members of the life-boat crew. The life-boat A.M.T. slipped her moorings at 3.45 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the sailing boat Freya, which had capsized, and embarked one member of her crew who had been rescued by a small motor cruiser. The owner was rescued by the life-boat and the Freya righted and taken in tow to Howth. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.50..