MARCH 31 ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 10.20 A.M. a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the motor yacht Alecia, on naval service, was aground on the Scroby Sand, and that her dinghy, with two men on board, was rapidly drifting away from her. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 10.40 A.M. the motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on temporary service at Gorleston, was launched, and found the Alecia aground, and the dinghy also aground about a quarter of a mile away. The life-boat went towards the dinghy, and when she was in six feet of water, the coxswain let go his anchor ; and drove the life-boat full speed astern until she grounded on the sands. She was still twenty yards from the dinghy. A line was fired to her by the line-throwing gun, and she was hauled out to the life-boat and the two men taken on board. The life-boat’s engines were then put to full speed ahead, and she refloated. She towed the dinghy to H.M.D. Rose Hilda, which was standing by in the roadstead, and then went towards the yacht. She again anchored, in about seven feet of water, veered down, and again struck the sands heavily She fired a line from her line-throwing gun and by means of it got a hawser from the yacht and made it fast.

Then her engines were put full speed ahead and the yacht’s full speed astern, and after about twenty minutes the Alecia refloated.

The life-boat escorted her into the roadstead, put on board her the two men rescued from the dinghy, and returned to her station, arriving at 12.25 P.M. - Property salvage case.