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Golden Gift

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 7.49 on the morning of the 24th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the herring drifter Golden Gift, of Yar- mouth, had anchored in Yarmouth Roads and was showing a distress signal. At 8.4 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched in a moderate sea with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing. She made for the position in an ebbing tide and found that the drifter, which had a crew of two, had broken down. She towed her to harbour and reached her station again at 10.38.—Rewards, £12 6s..