Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.29 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was along- side the Mid Barrow lightvessel and that her crew were asking for the assist- ance of a life-boat. At 6.50 the life- boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched two and a half hours before high water in a gentle south-south-westerly wind and a slight sea. She found the former ship's boat Tot Morgen with a young woman and four youths on board.

They had run short of fuel on passage from Gravesend to the Channel Isles.

The life-boat towed the boat to Bright- lingsea, where an ambulance took one of the youths and the woman, who were exhausted and suffering from exposure, to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 3.30. Rewards to the crew, £15 Is. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 7s..