Southwold, Suffolk. At 12.30 p.m.

on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was stranded on a mud bank in the River Blythe by the rising tide. At 12.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle easterly breeze and choppy sea. The IRB found the boy, landed him at Blythburgh, and then returned to her station which was reached at 1.20 p.m..