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Sea Eagle

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1954, the police at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the motor cruiser Sea Eagle, of Norwich, with three young men on board, had run ashore in Breydon Water and was in danger of capsizing in the fast ebbing tide. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 9.50, with the honor- ary secretary, Mr. J. S. Ling, on board, and made for the position in a light north-westerly breeze. She found the men clinging to the top of the Sea Eagle's cabin. The Sea Eagle was heeling over sharply. The life- boat went alongside with difficulty in pitch darkness, rescued the men, and returned to her station, arriving at 12.10.—Rewards, £13 10s..