Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.43 on the night of the 10th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht without lights was drifting on the strong ebb tide. There was a strong south-south- easterly wind with a moderate sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched. She sighted the yacht Aline II near the power station outfall. The yacht had two people on board and was in a very dangerous position on a lee shore. She was com- pletely out of control and would have gone ashore within a few minutes. The life-boat towed her to Gorleston and returned to her station at 12.17 early on the llth..