Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.6 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, the coast- guard learnt from the police that two canoes had capsized in Breydon Water.

This information was passed by the coastguard to the coxswain at 2.9. It was almost high water, and there was a strong south-westerly wind with a slight sea when the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 2.20. On reaching Breydon Water the life-boat found that one man had been picked up by the police, and that a second man was stuck in the mud. He was taken on board the life-boat, but in spite of artificial respiration carried out by the crew and by the policemen who returned in the life-boat, he died before reaching hospital. The life-boat re- turned to her station at 5.40..