RED FOR DANGER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.32 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Boy Leslie was burning red flares on the outer edge of the Newcombe sand. The cabin cruiser's engine had stopped and she was lying broadside to the sea in shallow water. At 5.35 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left in a fresh southerly breeze and choppy sea. The tide was flooding. A yacht had been unable to help the cabin cruiser due to her dangerous position. Using an echo sounder the life-boat edged up to the cabin cruiser, which was leaking badly and whose engine had flooded. The cabin cruiser was taken in tow but as she began to roll badly the three people on board were taken on to the life-boat and the cabin cruiser was brought alongside.

Efforts by three of the life-boat crew to bale her out were unsuccessful and as the life-boat entered the harbour the cabin cruiser was almost submerged. The lifeboat managed to get the boat to a mud bank where she was salvaged by a tug.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at 7.15..