Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man to be taken to hospital. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens with a doctor aboard was launched at half past twelve in a moderate west-north- west breeze with a slight sea, met the Cygnet one and a half miles out, and brought ashore the sick man, who had measles. She arrived at 2.30.-—Re- wards, £13 13,s..