Easrney, Hampshire - At 7.2 p.m. on 19th April, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a stormboat with a number of skin divers aboard was in difficulties near the Horse Sand fort and was being driven out to sea by the off-shore wind. The hard-hulled IRB 18-02 was launched at 7.13 in a fresh northerly wind with a choppy sea and showers. The tide was flooding.

About four miles south by west of the station she came up with the stormboat, with five skin divers aboard, and a rubber dinghy, both with engine trouble. 18-02 took both craft in tow to Langstone harbour, returning to her station at 8.16..