Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.43 early on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that SOS signals were being sent from a small boat drifting south of Welling- ton pier. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 12.50 in a gentle south- westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was two hours before low water. The life- boat found a small fishing boat, with one man on board, adrift with no anchor. The fishing boat's engine had broken down, and a member of the life-boat crew was put aboard to help connect a tow line. The life-boat then towed the boat into harbour and reached her station at 2.30..