Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at four o'clock in a light south-south-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the casualty, which was a motor yacht with a crew of three, and found that she had engine trouble. The yacht was towed to Brightlingsea, and the life- boat then returned to Clacton. The weather by then had grown worse, and the life-boat had to lie off the pier until the morning. As conditions did not improve, the life-boat returned to Brightlingsea. She finally reached her station at 8.30 on the morning of the 12th of July. Rewards to the crew, £36 11s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £15 8s..