PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Coastguard on duty having observed a small boat about a mile N. of the station, with a signal of distress flying, on the morning of the 26th August, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat placed here while a new boat was being built for the station, and at 7 o'clock she was launched. A moderate to fresh breeze was then blowing from N.N.E.

and there was a heavy sea. The distressed boat was found to contain the crew of the fishing lugger Masterpiece, of Great Yarmouth, which had stranded on the Happisburgh Sands on the previous night and at once commenced to break up. The nine men were taken into the Life-bo/it and were landed at Horsey, four miles S. of Palling, the direction of the wind and tide preventing the Boat from being beached at her station..