LATE DRIFTING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.4 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had heard a girl shouting for help near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 1.14 and after a search found the small outboard motor boat Margaret drifting with two young people on board.

The two people were taken on board the life-boat and the Margaret was towed back to harbour at 2.20. It was later learnt that two people, a boy and girl, had missed the last bus and ferry from Gorleston to Yarmouth and decided to take the small boat belonging to the girl's uncle.

They had cast off but were unable to to start the engine..