ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made signals to her by morse lamp to ask if she needed help, but no reply was received, and at 2.28 the lifeboat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, put out in an east-southeasterly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one hour after low water. The lifeboat made for the position given, and found the motor vessel Hoocreek of London. She had just refloated and her skipper asked the life-boat to escort her into deeper water. This was done, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.52. It was learnt later that the coaster had struck a sandbank because the South Holm buoy had apparently broken adrift..