Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a seaman aboard the tanker Oarsman of London had fallen thirty feet from the mast on to the deck machinery and it was feared that he had broken his back.

The tanker was reported to be proceed- ing with all speed towards Great Yar- mouth, and at 1.19 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched with a doctor on board. There was a calm sea with barely any wind, and the tide was flooding. The injured man was trans- ferred to the life-boat, which landed him at 2.35. He was taken to hospital, where it was found that he had fractured his spine in addition to other injuries.

Rewards to the crew, £12 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 5s..