Cromer, Norfolk - At 7.25 p.m. on 30th August, 1968, an IRB crew member saw a small yacht dragging towards the shore. The IRB was launched at 7.28 in a light easterly breeze and a moderate swell. Itwas just after low water. She found the yacht Stilalisanin adrift as her mooring line had parted. A man was swimming round the north buoy attempting to refix the line. The man, who was exhausted, was taken aboard the IRB which then went to the pier. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was also launched at 7.35 and the man was transferred to her at his own request. The IRB recovered the oars, rubber dinghy and other items and then passed a line from the life-boat to the yacht.

The IRB returned to her station at 10.20. After a quarter of an hour the life-boat succeeded in refloating the yacht, which was found to have lost her rudder and was leaking badly through her stern tube. Two members of the life-boat crew were put aboard the yacht to bail her out and the lifeboat towed her to Great Yarmouth.

During the passage the man was treated for shock. The life-boat was rehoused at 6.30 p.m. on 31st August..