LAUNCH FOUND AGROUND ON SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.33 on the evening of the 17th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the launch Marina was aground one mile north-west of Wallet Spitway buoy.

The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 6.40 in variable light airs and a slight sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat found the Marina with three people on board aground on Buxey Sands. Her engine had stopped through lack of fresh water. This was supplied from the lifeboat, and after the launch had refloated on the rising tide and her crew had been given some food the life-boat escorted her to the river Blackwater. The lifeboat reached her station at 10.30..