Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the police informed the life-boat coxswain that the S.S. Corn- wood, of Hartlepool, outside the harbour, had a sick man aboard in urgent need of help, and the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched ten minutes later with a doctor and the life-boat honorary secretary, Mr. H. A. S. Lane, on board.

A south-easterly wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The doctor found that the man had just died. The steamer went on her way to London and the life-boat returned to her station arriving at 4.15.—Rewards, £10 13*. 6d..