Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 9.35 a.m.

on 19th November, 1969, the coastguard reported that a motor boat was flashing a light one mile south of Cooper's beach. The life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched at 9.50. The tide was ebbing. At 10.33 she came up with the motor boat Linda with one man on board. Her engine had broken down at 10 a.m. the previous morning but the man's distress signals had not been seen. He was taken on board the life-boat and the motor boat taken in tow to Brightlingsea.

The life-boat returned to her station at 2.11 p.m..