Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the 4th of December, 1950, the Belgian trawler Yarmouth, bound for Ostend with white fish and carrying acrew of eleven, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. There she wirelessed for help; and about 8.10 that night the Gorleston coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that she was three and a half miles north-north-east of Great Yarmouth Harbour. At 8.17 the life- boat Louise Stephens was launched in a slight swell with a light westerly breeze blowing. She found the trawler high and dry, went alongside with difficulty, damaging herself slightly, rescued the crew, and landed them at £.15 next morning. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 5th the life-boat was launched again and took the trawlermen out to their ship; but this time she could not get near her for the seas. Between the 5th and 15th the life-boat made ten trips to the trawler to help in salvage operations which were being made by tugs; but the Yarmouth became a total wreck and attempts to salve her were abandoned.

-—Rewards: 1st service, £40 7s. 6d.; 2nd service, ten trips, Property Salvage Case..