SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point.

There was a near gale from the northwest with a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The Skegness life-boat Charles Fred Grantham launched at n.

The Wells life-boat Cecil Paine was launched half an hour after midnight on Tuesday morning to help with the search but owing to heavy seas and the state of the tide was unable to enter the Parlour Channel. She anchored to await daylight.

At 5.30 a.m. the Skegness life-boat located the casualty aground on the Frisney Flats.

On receiving this information the Wells life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.30. When the tide had flooded sufficiently the Charles Fred Grantham towed the Hod o' the Wind off the sands and brought her safely to Gibraltar Point.

She then returned to her station, arriving at 11.15 a-m-.