Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.13 a.m.

on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cable had parted from the wireless transmitting station Radio London and that the vessel was drifting, although she had put down her sea anchor. The sea anchor finally arrested her movement when she was two hundred yards east of Wallet No.

4 buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 2.40 in an east north easterly gale force wind and a very rough sea. It was one hour before high water.

The life-boat stood by until daylight, when Radio London managed to come under her own power and was eventually towed back to her moorings by a tug. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.30..