Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1957, the honorary secretary was informed that the S.S.

Motto, of Newcastle, was approaching Great Yarmouth with a sick man on board who needed a doctor. At 12.8 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor on board.

There was a slight sea, a gentle east- north-easterly wind was blowing and the tide was flooding. The man, who was suffering from heart trouble, was transferred to the life-boat, brought ashore and taken to hospital by ambulance. The life-boat reached her station at 1.5. Rewards to the crew, £12 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 5s..