Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 8.27 a.m. on 19th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been anchored all night south of the Shipwash lightvessel. At 9.30 the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser had hoisted a white flag on a short mast. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 9.40 in a moderate southerly breeze and slight swell. It was three hours after low water. She took the cabin cruiser Judith Margaret, with two persons on board, in tow to Felixstowe. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.50 p.m..