Caister, Norfolk. At 7.55 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the mechanic told the coxswain that a small fishing boat was burning red flares. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at 8.10 in a fresh westerly breeze and moderate seas, two hours after low water. She went to a position a quarter of a mile north of the South Caister buoy, where the fishing boat Catherine Anne of Yarmouth was found with her engine broken down.

There were three men aboard. The life- boat took the Catherine Ann in tow to Yarmouth harbour and reached her station at 10.30 a.m..