Cromer, Norfolk.—About six o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1953, the coastguard passed on to the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg a message he had received from Sheringham that a small motor vessel close to the shore was flying a signal and travelling south quickly. At 6.30 the coxswain saw the vessel approaching from the north-west and thought she was in a dangerous posi- tion. The coastguard then told him that she had nearly capsized east of Cromer pier and had asked for help, and at 6.50 the life-boat was launched.

There was a rough sea with a fresh north-north-west breeze. The life- boat found the motor vessel Norok, with the Commanding Officer of a Sea Cadet Unit and nine cadets on board. The Norok had lost her small boat and had engine trouble. The life-boat began to escort her to Great Yarmouth, but off Caister the Norok's engines failed. The life-boat then towed her to Great Yarmouth, which she reached at 10.15. As the weather would not allow the life-boat to be rehoused at Cromer, she remained at Great Yarmouth for the night and returned to her station on the 12th, arriving at six in the evening. The Commanding Officer expressed his thanks.—Rewards, £21 18,9..