FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft harbour.

The weather was overcast with drizzle, and there was a strong breeze blowing from the south-south-west. The life-boat Michael Stephens left her moorings at 11.55 on a flood tide in a moderate sea.

She made for the position given and came up with the trawler Pierre-Louis of Boulogne. The Pierre-Louis was fast by her bows on rocks and was being driven further ashore. The life-boat came down on the casualty stern first and passed a tow-line, which was made fast by the trawler's crew. The life-boat steamed full ahead and was able to keep the trawler's stern free of the rocks. The coxswain of the life-boat instructed the trawler's skipper to go astern, and she was pulled free. The life-boat then escorted the trawler into harbour before returning to her moorings, where she arrived at two o'clock in the morning..