A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong breeze, increasing to a gale, was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough and breaking on the sands. The small boat was the Joan, of Lowestoft, with a crew of two, returning home from the fishing grounds. She had drifted into broken water and her engine had been flooded. The life-boat passed her a rope and towed her clear of the broken water. Life-belts were then passed to her crew, and after they had pumped her clear the life-boat towed her into Lowestoft harbour. The life-boat re- turned to her station at 9.45 A.M.— Rewards, £13 17s. 6d..