GORLESTON.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th May and proceeded to the assistance of the steam trawler Chanticleer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the South Scroby Sand, on which a rough sea was breaking.

It was found that the water had risen in the hold and had extinguished the engine fires. The crew at once transferred their effects to the Life-boat. An anchor had already been laid out by the vessel's crew; the Life-boat men got a spring on it, and with the flood tide the vessel swung off into deep water, being then taken in tow by the steam-tug United Service, which succeeded in getting her into the harbour before she sunk, her decks being level with the water when she was placed on the hard..