Anxiety was felt for the local fishing coble Coral Cluster when she was at sea in worsening weather conditions on 29th July, 1965. At 4.16 p.m. the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched in a strong north-easterly wind, with a rough sea and flooding tide. She came up with the coble in Foxton Bay, two miles to the south of Boulmer. The coble's engine had broken down and the life-boat towed her to Boulmer. The lifeboat returned to her station at 5.20 p.m..