Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1955, several men on the beach saw red flares in the direction of North Scroby Sand. Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was rough, there was a strong east- south-east wind, and it was one hour and a half before high water. The life-boat found the steam trawler Thracian, of Grimsby, with a crew of six. She was aground on the sand and was rolling and pounding heavily.

With difficulty the life-boat went alongside her, and her crew jumped aboard. The life-boat took them to Caister and arrived back at her station at 8.15. The crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat assembled but were not needed.— Rewards to the crew, £11 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore. £6 6s..