Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, which he had had under observation for some time, had fired a red flare about four miles north-east of the look-out. At 9.15 the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out on the ebbing tide. The sea was choppy, and there was a gentle north- easterly breeze. The life-boat made for the position given and found the ex- fishing smack Quix with her sails carried away and making water forward. There were three of her crew on board. The life-boat took the casualty in tow, and after mooring her in Harwich harbour returned to her station, arriving at 2.1 in the morning..