MOTOR CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat was burning red flares three quarters of a mile off Jay wick. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 1.40 in a moderate to fresh westerly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat found the motor cruiser Buahari with five people on board. An oil pipe in the engine had broken and the motor cruiser had lost her anchor and cable.

The motor cruiser was taken in tow to Brightlingsea. where she was put to a safe berth, and the life-boat reached her station at 10.40..