Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 9.43 on the morning of the 8th of October, 1957, Trinity House Depot at Harwich asked if the life-boat would bring ashore the sick master of the Shipwash lightvessel, who needed medical treatment urgently.

Seven minutes later the no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched with a doctor on board in a smooth sea. There was a gentle north-easterly breeze and thick fog. It was high water. The life-boat embarked the sick man and reached her station at 6.8. Rewards to the crew, £13 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £27 4s. 6d. Re- funded to the Institution by Trinity House..