Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the fishing boat Coronation with a crew of two on board. Her propeller had been fouled. The lifeboat took the fishing boat in tow to Lowestoft, returning to her station at 9.45..