Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.30 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the trawler J.A.P. of Lowestoft was aground on the sandbank off the harbour entrance and had sent a distress signal. The drifter Wisemans had gone to her assistance, but had also grounded.

The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded at 9.55 in a south-westerly gale and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat stood by until both vessels refloated on the flood tide and escorted them to harbour, arriving at II a.m..