Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 4.4 on the afternoon of 21st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had occurred aboard the motor vessel Frandor in a position four miles south- west-by-west of the Smith's Knoll light- vessel, and that her crew had taken to the boats. At 4.10, when the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched, there was a fresh south-south-easterly wind with a moderate sea. The tide was half ebb.

On reaching the given position at 6.20 the life-boat found that the trawler Ocean Dawn had picked up the crew of the Frandor. The crew of the Frandor were transferred to the life-boat, their ship's boat taken in tow and their life-raft taken aboard. The men were landed at Great Yarmouth and the life- boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.40..