Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 1.9 a.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Sunk pilot cutter had observed two red flares south of the Sunk lightvessel and was proceeding to investigate.

At 1.18 a further message reported a small cabin cruiser with her engines broken down. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 1.45 in a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the motor cruiser Antigua with five people on board and took her in tow. After mooring her in the river, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.32..