AT a number of places round the coast wreaths were cast on the sea on llth November, in memory of men who lost their lives at sea during the war.

At Southwold, Suffolk, following the service in the parish church, the Mayor went to the harbour, where the Motor Life-boat was moored, and a short religious service was conducted by the Vicar. A wreath of laurel leaves, Flanders poppies and white chrysanthemums, in the form of an anchor, was blessed and taken on board the Lifeboat, which then went out to the Sizewell Bank, where in the evening of 28th July, 1915, the S.S. Mangara had been torpedoed. The Southwold Lifeboat had been launched to her help, but reached the sands to find only the steamer's mastheads visible. Six or seven of her crew had been picked up by other vessels, but eleven had been drowned.

Among the Crew of the Life-boat on Armistice Day were several of the Crew who had gone out in 1915 in the hope of rescuing the men on the torpedoed steamer. When the Life-boat had reached, as near as could be judged, the spot where the Mangara went down, the engines were shut off. Buglers on board her sounded the Last Post.

The Vicar offered prayers and cast the wreath on the sea in memory of the men who had been drowned in the service of their country. The hymn " Eternal Father " was sung, and the buglers sounded the Eeveille.

At Whitby, as the weather was too rough for boats to put out to hold a memorial service for the sixty-five local mariners who lost their lives in the war, a wreath was cast on the sea at the harbour bar, and a religious service was held in the harbour. At Redcar also the weather was so rough that the wreath in memory of the local fishermen, instead of being taken to sea as in previous years by the Life-boat, was cast on the sea at the end of the pier..