Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was aground about three and a half miles north by east- of Britannia Pier. The motor life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 8 o'clock, in a moderate north-easterly breeze with a slight sea, and found the s.s. Thule, of London, an oil tanker of 10,500 tons bound for the Humber, with sixty-seven per- sons aboard, stranded about two miles to the north-east. The master asked the coxswain to- check his position on the tanker's charts, but the coxswain saw that they were out of date and, at the master's request, the life-boat returned to her station and telephoned for up-to-date copies. They were sent from Lowestoft and the life-boat took them out to the Thule, stood by her and took soundings. Early in the afternoon the tanker refloated and as her services were then no longer needed, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.30.—Rewards, £20 Os. 6d..