Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.17 p.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small motor boat was reported to have broken down a quarter of a mile east of Chapel point. At 1.30 the IRB was launched in a heavy swell and a fresh westerly wind. It was one hour and a quarter before low water.

The IRB, after an extensive search, found the casualty and took her in tow. Owing to the heavy swell and surf breaking on the beach the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 4.10 to takeover the tow. The IRB returned to her station at 6.40. The life-boat took the three survivors on board and towed the boat to the river Haven at Gibralter point, returning to her station at 7 o'clock..