Lowestoft, Suffolk-At 10.59 a.m.

on llth May, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing dinghy with two people on board was being carried away by the ebb tide and appeared to be out of control. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 11.5 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the dinghy at 11.21 and took her in tow to Lowestoft. She returned to her station at 11.50..