Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.25 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Ameland, of Gliickstadt, was aground on Holm Sand about three and a half miles east of Lowestoft. She was in no immediate danger, but at 4.18 the coastguard asked for the life-boat. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a slight sea, and it was nearly low water. At 4.37 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Phillpot, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea. She found that the Ameland, which had a deck cargo of timber, was listing heavily. The life-boat stood by until she refloated on the flood tide and then escorted her into Lowestoft harbour, arriving at 7.37..