TOUCHED BOTTOM At 2.29 a.m. on 8th September, 1964, the police reported a red flare over Scroby sands. The sea was choppy with a fresh westerly breeze. The tide was two hours before low water when the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 2.51.

There was a heavy swell over the sands and the life-boat touched bottom occasionally as she made her way to the east side of Scroby sands to where a motor yacht, with five people on board, was lying aground. When she reached the yacht it was daylight and the tide was rising. By passing a line to the yacht the life-boat managed to tow her off the sands to the harbour. The yacht's twin rudders and propeller were badly damaged. At 7.15 the life-boat was back at her station..