WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The 'Husband Life-boat was launched at 7 A.M. on the 9th March, during a whole gale of wind and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The boat proceeded in a S.S.E. direction, and fell in with the s.s. Birling, of London, bound from Amble for Kochester, with a cargo of coal; she had broken her propeller, and had a signal of distress hoisted.

One of the Life-boat men was put on board the vessel; the services of steam-tugs from Yarmouth were procured, and the steamer was taken into Yarmouth Harbour..