Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the S.S. Gudrun of Norway stating that her deck cargo of timber had shifted and she had a heavy list to port. She needed immediate assistance, and her position was given as six miles east of the Smith's Knoll light. At 6.58 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched in a very heavy sea. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the Gudrun eleven miles east of the Smith's Knoll light. Fifteen of her crew had been taken off by the Lowestoft drifter Thrifty, leaving the master and two men on board. The life-boat stood by until the Dutch tug Scheldt arrived to take the Gudrun in tow. She then returned to her station, arriving at 11.59. Be- cause of weather conditions she could not be rehoused until two days later.

Rewards to the crew, £44 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s..