Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m.

on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor launch was sending up red flares off Sizewell in moderate seas and a gentle east-south-easterly breeze. The life-boat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 11.35. I* was two hours after high water. The launch Zingari, whose crew of two were unable to start the engine, was towed into Lowestoft. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.55 p.m..