Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat Jo and John Wade is pictured during a service to the Maltese-registered Ro-Ro vessel/4/A M'tff e/-/during the severe storms which swept the country on 28/29 October 1989. The photograph may not be of the highest technical quality, but does serve to show the severity of the conditions - much of the Arun's hull is clear of the water. The wind was reported as SW up to Force 11 and the sea state 9 (•Phenomenal' -waves more than 14m high). Joy and John Wade took off two of the crew from the stricken vessel.

The photograph was taken from the Swanage lifeboat, the 37ft Rother./. Reginald Corah, which was also on service to the casualty.

A full report of this arduous service for both lifeboats will appear in a subsequent issue of THE LIFEBOAT..