SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the Thelma, of Christiania, bound from Hamburg for Grimsby, in baJJast. She had stranded in the foggy weather which prevailed at the time.

The Life-boat stood by her until she was afloat, the coxswain explaining to the master his exact position and giving him his course. No further assistance being needed, the Life-boat sailed back to the station, arriving there at 4 p.m..