Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the early morning of the 14th of July, 1952, the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a call from the Gorton Lightvessel, received through the coastguard, that a small yacht had tied up astern of the lightship and needed help. A lightwest-north-westerly breeze was blow- ing with a slight sea. The life-boat found the thirty-feet yacht Velma, with a party of four aboard, which had experienced heavy weather while re- turning from Ostend to Brightlingsea.

As her crew were very tired and hungry and the Velma was leaking, the life- boat towed her to harbour, arriving at 3.26.—Property Salvage Case..