Cromer, Norfolk.—At about midday on the 10th February, 1938, the wind veered suddenly from W. to N.W., reaching gale force, and the sea became heavy. Two fishing boats were known to be still at sea, and at 12.25 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F.Bailey was launched to search for them. They were found at Overstrand, one already beached safely, and the other, named Urgent, about half a mile to the southward. The life-boat stood by the Urgent until she also was safely beached at Overstrand. As conditions would not allow the rehousing of the life-boat at Cromer, she made for Gorleston, arriving there at 3.30 P.M.

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