Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 3.9 in the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the Great Yarmouth steam trawler^won, half a mile off the harbour, had asked for a boat to land a member of the crew who was seriously injured. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 3.17 in a moderate westerly breeze with a moderate sea.

She found that the man was so badly hurt that he could not be moved without a doctor's help. She wire- lessed for one, returned to her station, brought him out to the trawler, and then brought the injured man and the doctor, ashore. There an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 4.37.—Rewards, £13 16*..