Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coxswain was told by his brother that the fishing boat John Patrick was missing from her moorings.

The boat could be seen circling west of the boom, and at ten o'clock the life- boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. There was a calm sea, with a light easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life- boat found the John Patrick with four youths on board and towed her to the pier, arriving at 11.15. Rewards to the crew, £5 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 18s..