At 7.25 p.m. on fth June, 1966, a vessel was seen flying a distress signal and burning red flares four miles east of the lookout. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left her moorings at 7.40 in a gentle westerly wind and a slight sea.

The tide was flooding. When she reached the trawler Leon Laura of Lowestoft, the life-boat was told that the trawl gear had fouled the trawler's propeller. A line was secured, and the life-boat towed the casualty back to harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 9.50..