LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Progress

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.33 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Progress, a naval cadet training ship, with about thirty cadets on board, had broken her steering gear half a mile north-east of the harbour. The life-boat LouiseStephens was launched at 12.37 in a smooth sea, with a light southerly wind blowing and a flood tide. The Progress was taken in tow to harbour and the life-boat reached her station at 1.40.

Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..