MAN AND RAFT TAKEN ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.58 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on an inflated rubber raft was being blown out to sea.

A fresh south-west-by-west wind was blowing with a moderate sea. It was one hour before low water. In these conditions the raft was likely to drift towards the main harbour. Nevertheless the life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at 9.15. She came up with the raft three quarters of a mile east of the coastguard station and found that a motor boat, from which some people had been fishing, was standing by. The life-boat took the man and the raft on board. As she was returning a small yacht was seen to be making heavy weather. The life-boat went to investigate but the yacht did not need help, and the life-boat therefore returned to her station, where the man was landed at 9.53..