M. A. Stephens
OCTOBER 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.50 in the morning, the Yarmouth coastguard reported a white flare on Scroby Sands two or three miles in a north-easterly direction. A moderate east-south-east breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 5.25, and found the steam drifter M. A. Stephens aground on Scroby Elbow. Her skipper said that no help was needed. He would try and refloat the drifter himself. The life-boat stood by until 7.45, when the drifter refloated and made for Yarmouth. The life-boat accompanied her to Yarmouth Roads and reached her station again at 8.30 that morning. - Rewards, £9 16s. 6d..