LINE FIRED TO MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Caister, Norfolk. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Winterton but did not require any help.

Two hours later the superintendent of the company to whom the vessel belonged telephoned the coxswain and asked if the life-boat would launch to lay out an anchor. The coxswain consulted the honorary secretary, and at 11.45 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a light west-north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the motor vessel Crescence of Rochester ashore on the beach, and an anchor was laid. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 8.10. The vessel was still ashore on the 27th January, and the superintendent again telephoned the coxswain to say that the tug Foreman of Hull was unable to close the Crescence enough to connect a tow line. He asked if the life-boat could help. She was launched at two o'clock in the afternoon and on reaching the position took a 300-fathom rope from the tug to the Crescence, which was passed aboard by means of the line-throwing gun. The life-boat stood off to await the flood tide and the return of the tug, which was then some distance away. At six o'clock the tow rope was put aboard the tug, but during this operation the tug steamed over the life-boat's anchor and the tow rope had to be cut. The life-boat could do nothing further, and she returned to her station, arriving at seven o'clock..