Four Drifters
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 7th of October, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a drifter was firing red rockets about a mile east-south-east of the coastguard station, and at 8.52 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a slight swell, with a light north-westerly breeze blowing, and she found two drifters between one and two miles to the south-east. She escorted them to harbour and then went south and found two more drifters; one with engine trouble in tow of another. The life-boat escorted them to the harbour as well and arrived back at her station at 10.30.—Rewards, £9 16s..