Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.47 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Stella of Whit- stable was in difficulties three miles south of Clacton pier. One of her crew had been rescued by a helicopter, but a second man had refused to leave. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was laun- ched in a rough sea, with a fresh southerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She found the yacht aground on the Gunfleet Bank, with the man clinging to the rigging, and although the water was extremely shallow man- aged to come alongside. The man fell overboard from the yacht but was quickly recovered by the life-boat crew, who landed him at Clacton. The Stella later sank. Because of the bad weather the life-boat went to moorings at Brightlingsea, and her crew arrived home at six o'clock in the evening.

Rewards to the crew, £16 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 9s..