Caister, Norfolk - At 11.27 a.m. on llth August, 1969, it was learnt that the motor vessel Norwich Belle had sighted a fishing vessel in difficulties near the South Caister shoal buoy.

The life-boat Royal Thames was launched at 11.35 in a fresh south easterly wind with a moderate ground swell. The tide was ebbing.

She came up with the motor fishing vessel Winaway of Lowestoft, which had a crew of four, at 11.55. The fishing boat's engine had broken down, and she was dragging her anchor and drifting towards the mid- Caister shoal. She was taken in tow to Yarmouth, and the life-boat returned to her station at 2.45..