CABIN CRUISER TOWED TO HARBOUR Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.25 on the morning of the 31st May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Mid Barrow lightvessel that a cabin cruiser was having trouble with her steering gear. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.37 in a gentle northnorth- westerly wind and a choppy sea.

It was two hours before low water. The life-boat reached the lightvessel at 11.35 and found that a line had been made fast to the cabin cruiser Amonelli. The cabin cruiser had a crew of three and was on passage from Great Yarmouth to Gravesend. The life-boat took her in tow to Brightlingsea, which was reached at five o'clock, and arrived back at her station at nine o'clock. The owner of the cabin cruiser sent a letter expressing his appreciation of the services rendered by the life-boat..