Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.50 p.m. on loth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Cromer coastguard that a vessel was in trouble two miles southwest of Lynn Well lightvessel. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 6.18 in a gentle north-easterly breeze and a slight swell. It was two and a half hours to high water. The life-boat reached the motor cruiser Golden Spray, which had three people on board, and took her in tow to Boston as her engine had broken down. The life-boat reached her station at 3 a.m..