Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.38 on the morning of the 19th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had broken down east of Hopton and needed help. At 9.43 the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched on a flood tide in a gentle north-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. She reached the fishing- boat and found that her gear had fouled her propeller. As this could not easily be cleared, the life-boat took the fishing boat in tow to Great Yarmouth, which was reached at 11.2..