Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.55 P-mon 29th April, 1967, it was reported that a motor yacht was aground off Lowestoft lighthouse and in danger of capsizing.

The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her mooring at 11.5 in a light south easterly wind and a calm sea. It was two hours before high water. She proceeded to the position indicated and fired a parachute flare as it was thought that the casualty, the yacht Four Rivers, was aground on the beach. Shortly afterwards a message was received from the skipper of the casualty stating that she was aground on the Gorton sandbank and was bumping badly. A few minutes later the skipper signalled that he was off the bank but taking in water. The life-boat met the casualty at East Newcombe buoy and escorted her to harbour. She returned to her moorings at 12.50 a.m. on 30th April, 1967..