Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.28 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that a man was stranded on a rope ladder at Rough Towers Fort. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 9.52 in a light west south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat proceeded to the fort and assisted the man into the life-boat. He was then transferred to the tender which had taken him to the fort, and the life-boat returned to her station at 1.20 a.m. on 28th June..