BELGIAN TRAWLER AGROUND AND DAMAGED Caister, Norfolk. At 4.15 a.m. on Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the Gorleston coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel appeared to be aground on North Scroby sands. At 5.20 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a slight west by south wind and a slight sea. It was an hour before low water. The life-boat found the vessel, the Belgian trawler Ixous of Ostend, with five people on board and stood by until she refloated.

She continued to stand by the trawler whilst her steering gear, which was out of order, was repaired. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 11.30a.m..