Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.54 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the local steam trawler King Athelstan, with a crew of ten, had broken adrift from a tug and gone on the Newcombe Sands.

At 8.20 the life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings in a moderate easterly breeze with a heavy ground swell.

She stood by while the tug got a line on board, refloated the trawler, and towed her to Lowestoft. Then she returned to her station, reaching it again at 10.30.—Rewards, £10 8*. 6d..