Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulty a mile east of Thorpe- ness. A moderate south-westerly wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 5.33 the life-boat Alfred and Patience Gott- ] wald was launched at low water. On reaching the position given the life-boat found the motor cabin cruiser De Santelle with her engine broken down.

She took the cabin cruiser in tow and brought her to Aldeburgh, reaching her station at 11.30..