HAD BROKEN DOWN At 3.35 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a white cabin cruiser had fired red flares but did not appear to be in danger. It was one hour before low water with a rough sea and a near gale from the north-west. Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat City of Bradford HI was launched. At 5.40 she found the cabin cruiser Altonia and learnt that her engine had broken down, forcing her crew of three to anchor i^- miles north-west of Canada wreck buoy. At 9 p.m. the life-boat arrived at Grimsby with the cabin cruiser in tow.

She returned to her station the following day when the weather had improved..