FEBRUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 2.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that H.M. Trawler Clotilde was ashore on the north beach about one hundred yards from the north pier, and ten minutes later the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea and rain. The motor lifeboat Louise Stephens was launched at 2.50 P.M. and got a wire from the trawler to a tug, but it broke. She then got a wire from the trawler to another tug and this also broke.

The tide was falling, nothing more could be done and the tugs returned to harbour. It was then 5.30 P.M. The life-boat remained, standing by. At 8 P .M. tugs came out again. The life-boat could not fix up a line between them and the trawler until the tide turned, but on the coxswain’s advice the trawler put her engines full astern and soon got herself off the beach. She was not damaged, so the lifeboat returned to her station, arriving at 9.45 P.M. - Rewards, £23 3s.