AUGUST 2 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 10.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht going north might need help. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. At 10.55 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A woman volunteer went out as a member of her crew.

The life-boat reached the yacht about three miles out and found her to be the auxiliary yacht Ziska, of Liverpool, bound from Ostend to Whitby, with seven on board. She was being swept by the seas and her crew were pumping and baling out her cockpit.

On the course she was steering she was in danger of running on the Newcombe Sands and would almost certainly have been lost with all on board. Her skipper was warned to alter course and the life-boat escorted her across the sands and into harbour. She returned to her station at 12.25 that afternoon.

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