LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Idler

Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was flying distress signals about a mile south-east of Winterton. At 4.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. There was a ground swell, with a strong south- westerly breeze blowing. She found the yacht Idler, of Great Yarmouth, with a crew of four, at anchor. Her crew could not manage her, so two life-boatmen boarded her, weighed anchor, and the life-boat then towed her to Great Yarmouth. She reached her station again at 8.0 that evening.

—Rewards, £14 8s..