The Life-boat Licensed Victualler was launched at 7 A.M.

on the 26th October at the request of the officer commanding the Admiralty Seaplane No. 898, to make a search for the machine, which had broken adrift the previous evening. The Life boat found the seaplane at about mid-day turned over on Burnham Flats. She towed it for eight miles under sails and oars towards Brancaster Beach, when, being unable to tow it further, she left it at about 8.30 P.M. The seaplane subsequently drifted on the beach. The Life-boat then returned to her station, where she arrived at about 3 A.M. next morning, the men having had a very arduous task in towing the machine against a foul wind and tide..