St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.3 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, air traffic control informed the assistant honorary secretary that an aircraft had sighted a yacht which was firing red flares to the north of the island. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon slipped her moorings at 10.23 in a north westerly gale with a rough sea. It was two and a half hours after high water. She came up at 11.40 with the yacht Miss Mitzy, with six people on board, two miles west south west of Grosnez point. She took the yacht in tow to St. Helier, and returned to her station at 2.48 p.m..