Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 12.15 p.m. on 2nd July, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel had stranded on the West Barrow sands one and a half miles north west of the Mid-Barrow lightvessel.

The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 2.10. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat stood by while the fishing vessel Tina Louise refloated and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.42..