Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither arrived at the ship nor returned ashore. The life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was launched at 11.42 in a gentle east south easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat searched Seaton bay and then towards the ship anchored in the bay. A message was then received from the tug Fiery Cross reporting that the Vim had just gone alongside the tanker Primbro.

The life-boat stood by until she unloaded her stores, anticipating her return to the Tees. Instead she made for the tanker Kopianella. The Kopianella reported that the Vim would remian alongside overnight and so the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.45 a.m. on 8th August..