Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.23 p.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles south west of the Sunk lightvessel. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate north westerly wind with a corresponding sea. The tide was flooding. At 11 o'clock the life-boat came up with the yacht Nicolene of Hoorn which was short of fuel and had fouled her propeller. The life-boat took her in tow—she was carrying a crew of three—to Walton, and returned to her station at 3.15 a.m. on 30th July.

A donation was made to the Institution's funds and a gift to the crew..