GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.

by S., the sea was very heavy and the weather was thick, accompanied by rain.

The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.20, and, on speaking the last-named Light-vessel, learned that flares had been seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. Crossing the Scroby Sand at very great risk the Life-boat men sighted a vessel, which proved to be the S.S. Roldal, of Stavanger, coal laden from Methell for Gravelines. She had grounded on the outside of the sand, and had been driven over it for two hours to the spot where she was found on the inside of the sand, and had eight feet of water in her hold.

With considerable difficulty and risk, occasioned by the vessel rolling heavily, the crew, numbering twelve men, were taken into the Life-boat, and,' as there appeared a likelihood of the ship being forced into deep water, the boat remained near her in company with the Caister Life-boat, which had also arrived on the scene. As had been anticipated, the vessel floated, but, being wholly unmanageable, she drifted on to the back of the Scroby Sand, filled with water, and became a hopeless wreck. The Life-boat then made sail and stood in to windward of the Cockle Light-ship, where she was taken in tow and brought into pan by the steam-tog Express, of Yarmouth..