Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.5 on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a man was very ill on board the collier Frances Fladgate. The vessel was mak- ing for Yarmouth Roads and had asked for medical help. At 10.21 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor on board in a smooth sea.

There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat reached the Frances Fladgate, and the sick man was transferred and brought ashore. Hewas then taken to hospital, and the life- boat reached her station at 10.59.

Rewards to the crew, £11 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..