SURVIVORS LANDED FROM VESSEL ON FIRE Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor trawler John O'Heugh was making for Lowestoft with the crew of eighteen of the motor vessel Fountains Abbey, which had been abandoned after catching fire. Several survivors had serious injuries and medical help was needed. After further enquiries had been made the life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings with a doctor on board at 7.58 in a fresh north-westerly wind and a rough sea. It was low water. The life-boat met the trawler at a pre-arranged rendezvous off the North Gorton buoy at nine o'clock. The doctor was put aboard the trawler, which entered the harbour escorted by the life-boat.

The injured men were conveyed to hospital by ambulance, and the lifeboat reached her station at 10.2..