CAISTER.—At about 3 A.M. on the 1st November, signals of distress were ob-served, and the Life-boat Covent Garden put off. She proceeded in the direction of the signals, across the Scroby Sand, and found the fishing smack Iron Duke, of London, drifting with her cable paid out, but no anchor, close to the middle Cross Sand; she had also lost her mainmast.

The Life-boat men boarded her, hove in her cable, and, with the aid of a steam-tug, took her, with her crew of six men, safely into harbour. The vessel had been in tow of another smack, but had got adrift during the night..