In response i| to a telephone message at 3.45 P.M. on ! the 17th January, stating that a vessel | was ashore at Sizewell with her crew in the rigging, the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Gorry was launched. She found the schooner Voorwaarts, of Groningen, on the inner shoal. The crew of four men and a woman, who were on board, were rescued, and the boat returned to her station, arriving at 8 P.M..