Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.11 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a canoe with one person on board was stranded on Scroby sands.

At 7.23 the inshore rescue boat together with the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched in a fresh south by east breeze and moderate sea. The tide was flooding.

The canoe's occupant was taken on board and the inshore rescue boat reached her station at 8.10. The canoe was then picked up by the life-boat which returned at 8.13..