HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in broken water and a sprat boat had her in tow. At 1.5 the coastguard reported that the tow rope had parted, and at 1.30 the life-boat Lucy Lovers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a strong northerly breeze, the sea was rough, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Y.811 with a crew of two, anchored in broken, confused seas just inside the outer bar of the harbour. The life-boat went alongside, and a helicopter also reached the scene shortly afterwards. The helicopter took off one of the yacht's crew, landed him on the beach and then returned for the other man. In the meantime the life-boat crew had been trying to take the cruiser in tow. The helicopter took off the second man, and the life-boat put two men aboard Y.811.

A tow rope was secured and the men re-embarked in the life-boat, which towed the motor cruiser to Wells, arriving at 2.40. The two men who had been on board the motor cruiser made a gift to the life-boat crew..