Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat, Kath- leen Ann, had anchored about fifty v^.rds from the shore opposite the coastguard look-out. Her engine was out of action, and two of her crew were waving for help. The life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings at 3.25 and put out in a moderate south-easterly wind with a corresponding sea and an ebb tide. She towed the Kathleen Ann into Lowestoft harbour and returned to her station at 4.10..