ALDEBURGH and HARWICH.—In response to a message received by telephone, the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 5.30 A.M. in a whole gale from N.E. and a terrific sea, with very heavy rain and snow squalls, and saved the crew of three men from the ketch Ludovicus, of and from West Hartlepool, bound for Orford with coal. The Life-boat then made for Harwich and landed the rescued men. To return to her station would have entailed a dead beat to windward against a very heavy gale, and as, moreover, there was too much sea on the shoals to allow of a landing at Aldeburgh, it was decided to remain at Harwich until the gale moderated. At 5.30 on the following afternoon the Life-boatmen were sitting at tea when the signal gun was heard, a message by telephone having been received reporting a vessel on the Maplin Sands.

The crew at once manned the Life-boat, proceeded to the sands, and found the s.s.

Pampa, of and from Hamburg for San\ Francisco, with a general cargo and twenty-four persons on board. The Aldeburgh Life-boat reached her at 7.45 P.M., and shortly afterwards the Institution's Harwich steam Life-boat City of Glasgow and the private Life-boat True to the Gore, of Walton-on-the-Naze, arrived.

The Life-boatmen assisted to jettison the cargo in order to lighten the vessel, and with the help of two tugs she was got off the sand at 3.30 on the morning of the 28th, and proceeded to Gravesend, some of the Life-boatmen accompanying her.

The Aldeburgh then started for home andjust after daylight observed a vessel apparently ashore. The 8 win Middle light-vessel was spoken, and those on board having stated that they thought the vessel was stranded, and that they were about to fire guns for a Life-boat, the Aldeburgh proceeded to her and found she was the barque Magdimeta, of Kisor, laden with ice from Christiania for London.

She was lying on the Heape Sands, herback was broken and she was full of water.

Her crew of ten men were saved by the Life-boat, which then resumed her journey to Aldeburgh, falling in with the 8.8.

Moness, of Hartlepool, which very kindly gave her a tow, and arriving at her station at 1.45 P.M. The Aldeburgh Life-boatmen were thus engaged on service more than a hundred hours, and contributed to the saving of thirty-seven lives..