HERRING DRIFTER BREAKS AWAY FROM TUG Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.50 on the evening of the 10th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a tug towing the Scottish herring drifter Silver Wave, which had a crew of eight, was sending signals on her siren. The drifter had broken away from the tug and was driving toward rocks outside the harbour. At nine o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens put to sea. There was a strong eastnorth- east breeze, the sea was rough, and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the Silver Wave, which had lost her rudder, at the entrance to the harbour, but found that another Scottish drifter had taken her in tow.

The life-boat stood by while both drifters entered the harbour and arrived back at her station at 9.30..