Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.34 a.m. on 3rd July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported a yacht aground and lying on her side on the Sunk Sands.

Weather conditions did not suggest any danger and there had been no distress signal from the yacht, but it was decided to launch the life-boat. The Edian Courtauld proceeded at 10.10 in a light northerly breeze and a slight sea. It was low water.

The life-boat reached the yacht Two Chances of Wivenhoe by way of the northeast Gunfleet, arriving at 11.45. Her crew of three were about to fire distress flares as the rising tide was bumping the yacht very hard on the sands and she was making water fast. The coxswain put a line aboard and towed her clear. Three members of the life-boat crew were transferred to the yacht, while her crew were taken aboard the life-boat, which then towed the Two Chances to Walton as the yacht was the home of the three men.

The life-boat crew had to work extremely hard baling all the time to keep the yacht afloat and half way the crew had to be changed. Finally, at 3.30, the lifeboat handed over the Two Chances to a local yachting firm and returned to her station, arriving at 4.40 p.m..