SINKING CABIN CRUISER AND CREW SAVED Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.45 on the afternoon of Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, the Cromer coastguard told the coxswain that a crab boat had taken a cabin cruiser in tow and might require assistance. At 4.58 the life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellowswas launched in a gentle westerly wind and slight sea. It was high water. On reaching the cabin cruiser, the Buccaneer, the life-boat found that she was leaking badly and her engine was out of action.

A member of the crew of the crab boat was aboard her baling out the water to keep her afloat. The three people on board the cabin cruiser were taken on board the life-boat and three members of the crew of the life-boat were transferred to the cabin cruiser to help in baling her out. The three people rescued from the Buccaneer were taken to Cromer. The life-boat then took some more buckets out to the cabin cruiser.

The leak was temporarily stopped and she was towed to Gorleston. The lifeboat returned to her station at 4.45 a.m..