Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 4.5 p.m.

on 9th November, 1969, it was learnt that a speedboat was firing red flares half a mile east of Skegness. At 4.30 the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched in a fresh north westerly wind. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the speedboat, which had engine failure, and took off her crew of two.

She was then taken in tow to Skegness where she was beached. The life-boat returned to her station at 5 o'clock..