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Fumerole

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Gorles- ton coastguard telephoned that the steam drifter Fumerole, of Peterhead, which had been in tow of another drifter, had parted her tow rope at the entrance to Gorleston Harbour. She ran aground five hundred yards north of the harbour, and the pilot boat took off some of her crew of ten who later returned to their ship. At 5.20 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a slight sea, with a light south-westerly breeze blowing, and went alongside the Fumerole. She pulled the Fum- erole clear, and another drifter towed her to Gorleston escorted by the life- boat, which reached her station again at 10.30.—Property Salvage Case..