Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1955, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned to say the North Foreland radio station had reported that the motor trawler Saint-Pierre-Eglise, of Bou- logne, had run ashore north of Winter- ton. At 7.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was very rough, a strong north-easterly breeze was blowing, and it was an hour after low water. The life-boat found the trawler on Waxham beach, but could come no nearer to her than a quarter of a mile because of the sandbanks and heavy seas. She stood by while the trawler's crew of eighteen were taken ashore by breeches buoy by the coastguard Life- Saving Apparatus company and then returned to her station, arriving at noon.

On the 14th the trawler's agents asked if the life-boat would help to re- float the vessel, and at 5.30 in the morning the life-boat was launched in better weather. She passed wires from the trawler to- a tug, but efforts to refloat the trawler failed, and the life- boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.30. Ten trawlermen and members of the life-boat crew re-boarded the vessel in further attempts to refloat her, and at 6.45 on the morning of the 16th the life-boat was launched for the third time.

She laid out an anchor for the trawler and helped the tug take her in tow, but all efforts to refloat her were again un- successful. The weather worsened and she heeled over. The men were taken ashore by the Life-Saving Apparatus Company, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.30—Rewards: 1st service, £22 14?. 6d.; 2nd and 3rd services, no expense to the Institution.