Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 6th of February, 1950, after the local boats had left for the fishing grounds sixteen miles south-east of Cromer, there were indications of a north-easterly gale approaching. It was decided, therefore, to send out the No. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon. She was launched at eleven o'clock in a rough sea with an increasing north-north- easterly wind. Five miles south-east of Cromer, she met one of the boats, but left her to make her way home alone. Off Mundesley she found another boat with a crew of three, including the coxswain of the Cromer No. 1 life-boat. This boat decided to go ashore, and the life-boat stood by until she was beached. As the searchwent on it was learned that two other boats had got ashore at Bacton. Three more boats were met eleven miles to the south-east of Cromer and safely escorted to a beaching place at Bacton. The life-boat then made for home, arriving at two o'clock in the afternoon. Of the four boats which the life-boat stood by, three belonged to Cromer and one to Runton.—Rewards, £17 16s..