Lowestoft, Suffolk.—During thick fog on the afternoon of the 9th of Decem- ber, 1952, a vessel about two miles south-east of the harbour was heard blowing her siren, and at 5.15 the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen. At 5.22 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched in a moderate sea with a moderate south- erly breeze blowing. She found the trawler Mollia, of Lowestoft, with a crew of eight. The Mollia had been aground three times, and the skipper had lost his bearings on the sandbank.

He asked the life-boat to guide him clear, and the trawler followed thelife-boat to the harbour, arriving at 6.50.—Rewards, £7 16s..