The s.s. Bodll, of Esbjerg, was totally wrecked on the ! Haisborough Sands on the 27th May whilst bound from Sweden to South- | ampton with a cargo of timber. A i strong N.E. breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. A fishing- | smack observed the vessel ashore and reported the fact to the St. Nicholas Light-vessel, which, in turn, reported it to the Superintendent of the Trinity | House at Yarmouth, and he telephoned for the Cromer Life-boat Louisa Heart- well to be launched. The boat was accordingly dispatched, and when near- ing the sands the wreck was observed, and Coxswain Blogg made straight for her. When he commenced to shorten j sail in readiness for crossing the sands he observed a ship's boat with men in her holding up an oar to attract atten- tion. The boat was near the edge of the sand, and he at once set sail and bore down on her. When he reached her he found that she belonged to the j wrecked vessel, and that the whole of the crew, fourteen in number, were on board; without loss of time the fourteen men were taken into the Life-boat.

There was a heavy sea on the sands, and if the crew of the ship's boat had not used a plentiful supply of oil to keep the seas from breaking over them their boat must have been swamped.

The Life-boat then proceeded to a patrol-boat which had been standing by since the early morning but had been unable to get near the wreck. This patrol-boat took the Life-boat in tow and dropped her off Cromer. Some of the shipwrecked men were in an exhausted condition, all of them being | very cold and wet through. One of them had a very narrow escape of being drowned as he was washed off the wreck with some of the deck cargo, but, fortunately, he was saved by means of a rope which was thrown to him..