MOTOR CRUISER FOUND IN TOW OF SMACK Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 9th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of reports that red flares had been seen in the direction of Buxey Sands, and at 10.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. There was a light northeasterly breeze, the sea was slight, and the tide was flooding. At 11.10 the life-boat found the motor cruiser Viking, which had a crew of seven, in tow of a smack a mile south of Whittaker beacon. The Viking had grounded on a sandbank and her engine had broken down. The life-boat escorted the motor cruiser to Brightlingsea, where she was beached, and then returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock in the morning..