EIGHT SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM TRAWLER Caister, Norfolk. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 8th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had sighted red flares north-east of Caister. The motor mechanic of the life-boat then reported that he had seen a vessel aground on the North Scroby. The life-boat Jose Neville was therefore launched at 7.20 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The tide was half flood. The life-boat made for the North- West Scroby buoy and came up with the motor vessel Reed Warbler, whose master directed the coxswain to a position south-east of Scroby Elbow.

After a few minutes a rubber float was sighted about half a mile south of the vessel aground. The life-boat went alongside the rubber float in heavy seas at 7.45 and from it rescued the crew of eight of the trawler Kirkley of Lowestoft.

The survivors were given rum, and the life-boat made for Great Yarmouth, arriving at nine o'clock with the rubber float in tow. The survivors were landed, and the life-boat then made for the wreck to investigate the possibility of salvaging a small boat secured alongside the trawler. The boat was waterlogged and the risk of damaging the life-boat was considered too great. The life-boat therefore returned to her station, which she reached at 11.20..