Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1953, the coastguard told the life-boat cox- swain that a motor boat appeared to be in distress three quarters of a mile off Pakefield and was flying distress signals. At 12.25 the life-boat Michael Stephens put to sea and made for the position in a moderate sea. with a fresh north-north-west breeze blowing.

She found the fishing boat Marion, of Lowestoft, with a crew of three, three miles south-south-west of Lowestoft.

The Marion's trawl had fouled her propeller, but she had anchored. Two life-boatmen boarded her and helped the crew to weigh their anchor. The life-boat then towed the Marion to Lowestoft, reaching her station again at 2.40. The owner made a gift to the life-boatmen.—Rewards, £8 19s. 6d..