Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 6.57 on the evening of the 27th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that he had seen red and green rockets between three and four miles south- east of the coastguard station. At 7.5 in a flooding tide, the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched. The sea was rough, and a fresh gale was blowing from south-by-west. Three miles south-east of Gorleston pier the life- boat found four Polish trawlers. None of her crews could speak English, but the trawlers followed the life-boat wherever she went and it was assumed that they wanted to enter harbour.

The life-boat escorted them to the harbour and reached her station again at 9.16.—Rewards, £10 17s. 6d..