Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel Si Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.

The lifeboat had been launched at 1620 following a Mayday call from the vessel which had been in collision with a tug towing barges about 6 miles north east of the station.

The ten men aboard the casualty had taken to her own lifeboats and were picked up by another vessel which had been only four miles away when the collision occurred.

St Mark went down quickly, but as the wreck was in a busy shipping lane Ruby and Arthur Reed II stood by until she had sunk completely at 2030 before towing the ship's lifeboats ashore. Due to the heavy swell she was unable to re-house at Cromer and put into Great Yarmouth before returning the following day. (Photo - Coxswain Richard Davies).