Walton and Frinton, Essex. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been observed dragging her anchor half a mile off Holland-on-Sea, and that there was a danger of her drift- ing ashore. At 6.20 the life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings on the flooding tide. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The life-boat came up with the cabin cruiser Carousel and found that her owner and a holiday-maker, who had swum out to help, were unable to start the engine because of a defective water pump. The Carousel was taken in tow by the life-boat and placed at moorings in Walton river, the owner and the holiday-maker being landed at the pier. The life-boat reached her station at 9.42..