Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. On the morn- ing of the 4th August, 1961, when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returning to her station from Brightlingsea after a service the day before, the coxswain decided to in- vestigate the position of a yacht, which had anchored off Holland-on-Sea the previous evening and had remained in an exposed position with a moderate west-south-westerly breeze and bad holding ground all night. The time was then about 11.30, and it was low water.

The life-boat found the yacht Janet with two people aboard, one of whom, a girl, had a poisoned hand. They were both taken on board the life-boat and landed at Clacton pier, where the girl received medical attention. The life- boat then returned to the yacht and towed her to a safe anchorage in the river Colne before returning to her station, which she reached at 4.45..