Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9 a.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard reported that a rowing boat was in difficulties off the Links road. At 9.10 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings in a fresh south westerly wind with a choppy sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat came up with the rowing boat. The rower had lost one oar and the anchor was fouled. Two life-boat men were transferred to the boat, which was subsequently towed to the beach. The life-boat then went south to warn several fishing vessels of an expected deterioration in the weather. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.20..