DRIFTING TO SEA Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.15 p.m. on 16th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three people in a small dinghy were trying to attract attention. Their craft was off Holland Haven drifting seawards on the tide, which was two hours before low water. The sea was choppy with a moderate north-westerly breeze when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 12.30. A motor fishing vessel picked up the three people who were transferred to the life-boat and landed at Clacton pier.

The life-boat reached her station at 1.35..