APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Information was picked up by North Foreland Radio and passed through the coastguard to the life-boat station that a steamer was aground off Great Yarmouth and in need of tugs. At 7.11 in the morning the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.

There was fog. The life-boat found the American steamer Samuel Parker, of 7,000 tons, bound for Hull with a cargo of grain.

She had grounded three miles from Great Yarmouth on the South East Scroby Sands.

A tug had already fixed a tow rope, and the captain of the steamer asked the coxswain to come on board. He took the wheel, and the tug towed the Samuel Parker off about 9.15.

The coxswain remained on board until the Newarp Light-vessel was sighted. He then returned to the life-boat, and she arrived at her station at noon. - Property salvage case..