CHANCE MEETING HELPS PLEASURE BOAT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

At 11.20 a.m. on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Gorleston coastguard told the honorary secretary that a swimmer was in trouble at north beach, Great Yarmouth. The life-boat Louise Stephens and the inshore rescue boat were launched eight minutes later on the fourth hour of the ebb in a fresh south-by-west breeze and moderate seas.

A helicopter was asked to assist in the search but the only one in the area was out of service. At 12.7 p.m. the police reported that the swimmer had returned safely to the shore. There was a considerable swell on the return passage when the life-boat found the pleasure boat Scroby Queen which had broken down and was drifting on to the sands in Yarmouth Roads with fourteen passengers on board. The life-boat took her in tow and brought her into harbour, returning to her station at 1.36 p.m..