Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat was available, and at 1] .15 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched in a slight sea with a light westerly breeze blowing, taking two doctors with her. She came up with the Libra off the harbour, and the doctors found that the man had serious abdominal trouble. He was lowered into the life-boat on a stretcher and taken ashore to a waiting ambulance.

The life-boat reached her station again at 12.45.—Rewards, £10 17s..