Appledore, Devon - At 4.4 p.m. on I4th September, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of a barge which had been moored on the gravel bank northwards of Crow Point, on the morning tide. Her crew of four had reboarded her when she dried out. The weather had worsened and the coxswain thought she would be in difficulties when the breaking seas of the flooding tide reached her, before she floated off the bank. The life-boat Louisa Ann Hawker proceeded at 4.48 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was one and a half hours before high water. She stood by the barge Marlene until she refloated and then escorted her to Appledore. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.8..