On the 22nd Septem- ber, in response to a telephone message from Walton-on-the-Naze reporting that a large steamer was apparently ashore, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow put to sea. She spoke a trawler on her way out which reported that part of the crew were still on board the steamer.

When the Life boat arrived she found the vessel was the Koningin Emma, of Amsterdam, which had fouled a mine and gone aground. She carried a large number of passengers and a crew of two hundred, and was bound from Java to Amsterdam with a general cargo. It was shortly after five o'clock in the evening when the Life-boat reached the vessel, and the captain desired the Life- boat to stand by all night in order that the condition of the ship could be ascer- tained in daylight. The vessel was listing badly, and when the tide made she floated and then began to heel over, causing the captain, officers, and others on board to scramble down the falls into the Life-boat. The Life-boat remained near at hand, steaming round the vessel until about 8.20 P.M. ; it was then seen that the vessel would become a total wreck. Previous to this the passengers and the majority of the crew had been taken off by Government vessels, and the men rescued by the Life-boat, twenty in number, were conveyed to a steamer which was in the vicinity of the sinking vessel. The Life-boat returned to her station at 10.30 P.M..