Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.

The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at 3.10 in a fresh westerly wind with a moderatesea. It was one hour after high water. She came up with the man a quarter of a mile off the pier head some nine minutes later and took him aboard. He was given first aid and landed at the breakwater. The canoe was recovered later, and the life-boat returned to her moorings at 4.53..