SPEED BOAT OUT OF FUEL Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 p.m.

on ist August, 1965, a speed boat was reported drifting out to sea off Lee-over- Sands. The people in it were waving their arms. There was a light southerly breeze and the sea was choppy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 6.20 p.m. and found the speed boat which had run out of fuel. Five people were aboard. The life-boat took the speed boat in tow until another speed boat arrived and took over the tow. The life-boat stood by until both boats beached and then returned to her station at 7.21 p.m..