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Korab II

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the south-south-east. A steamer was standing by. About 5 o'clock the fishing vessel was said to have got under way, but it was later reported that flying two flags she was drifting, one mile to the east-south- east. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 5.45 and in a rough sea, with a fresh south-easterly breeze, found the motor fishing vessel Korab II, of Gdynia, Poland, with her engine broken down and a crew of seven on board, five miles north-north-east of the lightvessel. The life-boat took the fishing vessel in tow, and wirelessed for a tug, which took over the tow, while the life-boat escorted them both to Yarmouth Roads. She reached her station again at 11.30 that night.— Property Salvage Case..