Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.42 on the evening of the 17th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Mermaid, which had a sick man aboard, was making for Yarmouth roads and had asked for the services of a doctor. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 7.15 with a doctor on board. It was high water, and there was a fresh to strong east-north-easterly wind with a moderate sea. The life-boat came up with the Mermaid at 7.30, and the sick man was taken off and landed at Gorleston at 7.50, after which the life- boat returned to her station..