Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.30 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coxswain of the life-boat, while at sea on exercise, received a radio message from the fishing vessel Edith May that the motor boat R.I.B.S., with one man aboard, had broken down 12 miles south south west of Newhaven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was at the time on passage to Seaford. She had been launched at 2 o'clock. It was low water. The life-boat, using radar in the poor visibility, located the motor boat at 3.45. She took her in tow to Newhaven, and returned to her station at 6.10..