Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.

on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 9.35 in a gentle south westerly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was at half ebb. She reached the yacht Sea Lavender at 10 o'clock. The casualty had lost her rigging and anchor, and also run out of petrol. The life-boat passed a towline to the yacht and towed her to Felixstowe. When the Sea Lavender was safely berthed, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 4.15 a.m. on 14th June..