At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in a moderate south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat carried out an extensive search and at 12.6 a.m. a boat answering thedescription of the missing boat was sighted well inside the entrance of West Hoo Creek with her engine broken down. The life-boat went in as close as possible and a rubber dinghy was then launched from her with two members of the life-boat's crew aboard. The boy was rescued and put aboard the life-boat. He was landed at Gillingham at 1.54, and the life-boat returned to her station at 2.22..