COASTER RE-FLOATED Caister, Norfolk.—At about 10.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1947, a motor vessel was seen stranded on the west side of Scroby Sands, two miles east of the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat Josk Neville was launched at 10.47, in a moderate south- easterly breeze and slight sea. She found the motor coaster Cyprian Coast, of Newcastle, a vessel of 508 tons, bound for London with a crew of nine.

It was low water and she was hard aground. The life-boat stood by, and, as the tide flowed, the coxswain gave advice to the captain, and the coaster eventually refloated under her own power. She went on her way, and the life-boat returned to her station at 6.10 that evening.—Rewards, £26 6s..