Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.41 in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a broken down motor boat and a rowing boat were drifting northwards, on the ebbing tide, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The motor- boat tried to anchor, but the cable fouled her mast, and the coastguard saw the mast go overboard and drag a man with it. The other men hauled him aboard again and made distress signals.

The motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 3.55, took off six of the motor boat's crew of seven and took the motor boat in tow. She then made for the rowing boat, took off her crew of two, took the boat in tow, and returned to Lowestoft, arriving back at her station at 4.45.—Rewards, £7 9s..