Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.35 p.m.

on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on a sandbank 1\ miles south east of Buxey Beacon.

The life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.56 in a strong south westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was two hours after low water.

At 8.10 the yacht Hexan, with a crew of three, was found aground on Foulness Spit and was taken in tow to a safe anchorage at Burnham. Owing to unfavourable weather conditions the life-boat could not be rehoused until 6.56 on 26th June..