LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER SEARCH FOR CATAMARAN Wells, Norfolk. At 1.28 a.m. on Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with three men on board was missing from Brancaster. There was a strong breeze from the south-west with a choppy sea. The life-boat LucyLavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.20 on the flood tide. The life-boat searched off Scott Head and the coxswain asked for helicopter assistance at daybreak. The life-boat continued the search in conjunction with the helicopter and it was decided to ask for the Sheringham life-boat's assistance.

Before this was done the helicopter found the catamaran in the tow of a fishing vessel. The three survivors were taken off by the Wells life-boat and landed at Wells. The life-boat returned to her station at eight o'clock..