Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—In the afternoon of the 23rd September, 1938. the coastguard reported that the St. Nicholas Light-vessel was firing and flying signals calling for the lifeboat's help. A light S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell on the sands, and the weather was hazy. The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 3.40 P.M., and went to the light-vessel. There she learned that the signals were for a small vessel which appeared to be ashore in broken water, away to the eastward.

The life-boat found her to be the yacht Veryan, bound, with a crew of three, from Holland to Harwich. She was not actually aground, but was in a dangerous position. The coxswain advised the master to put about, and the life-boat escorted her into a safe position. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.10 P.M.—Rewards, £9 135..