ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.

on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched in a moderate south-easterly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.

About half-an-hour after midnight the life-boat reported over the radio that she was taking the casualty, the cabin cruiser Liz whose engines had broken down, in tow to Grimsby. The life-boat returned to Skegness at n a.m. on the 6th June, 1965..