CRAB BOAT AIDED Cromer, Norfolk. At 9 a.m. on 2pth June, 1964, the crab boat George William was seen by the coxswains of the two lifeboat stations to be adrift with a fouled propeller one mile south-east of Cromer.

The crab boat My Beauty had tried unsuccessfully to take the boat in tow three times. At 9.5 the life-boat Jose Neville, on temporary duty at the no. 2 station, was launched in a near north-westerly gale and very rough sea. The tide was flooding. By this time the crab boat had been taken in tow by the crab boat Young Fisherman. A member of the life-boat crew was put aboard the George William to help to row her ashore with the life-boat escorting.

The life-boat then set out again and escorted the Young Fisherman safely to the shore, returning to her station at 10 a.m..