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Terrible Twins

Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.

Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea.

There was a fresh west-south-westerly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat reached the motor boat Terrible Twins, which had a crew of two. A member of the life-boat crew was put on board and the boat was taken in tow and beached at Yarmouth. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 10.55. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6. Is..