LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard station. A south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea.

The motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 5.10 and found the motor launch, with a crew of four- teen, anchored near the south-east Newcombe buoy. Her engines had dragged her anchor. The life-boat stood by while she repaired them, and at 6.30 piloted her to a navigable channel, returning to her station at 8.0 P.M.—Rewards, £10 17s..