MOTOR BOAT BEACHED Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.58 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat south of the lookout had broken down. The coxswain studied the boat's position and was then told by the coastguard that the boat was asking for life-boat assistance.

It was low water with a moderate breeze from the south-east and moderate seas.

The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 5.45. The casualty was a 20-foot motor boat which was leaking badly. Her engines had also broken down. Before the life-boat could reach the casualty a shore-boat had taken a woman off the vessel, leaving a crew of two. The life-boat took the boat in tow to the Walton backwater and put her ashore near the yacht club. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 8.35 p.m..