Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.40 p.m. on 22nd September, 1968, the garda informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a flare between the West pier and Howth. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 5 o'clock in a light westerly breeze with a smooth sea. It was high water. She came up with the yacht Estelle, which had been dismasted, two miles north east of Dun Laoghaire. The crew of three were taken aboard the life-boat and the yacht was taken in tow to Dun Laoghaire. The life-boat returned to her station at 7 o'clock..