FOUR SPRAT BOATS Wells, Norfolk. At 5.20 p.m. on aist November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north-west of the coastguard lookout. There was a strong gale from the west-south-west with a very rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, launched at 5.30 and came up with four sprat boats, lying to west of the harbour, heavily loaded with fish. The boats asked the life-boat to escort them into harbour as they had difficulty in establishing their position in the driving spray and foam. Using her searchlight and parachute flares, the life-boat picked out the channel marker buoy and escorted the four boats safely into harbour, arriving at 10.30..