The steam drifter Friendly Star, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Bank on 14th November, while bound for Yarmouth from the fishing grounds in a dense fog with a light W.S.W. wind. Information that the vessel was burning flares for help was received from the Coastguard at 1.20 A.M., and a few minutes later the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. The master of the drifter was afraid that -she had been damaged on a wreck over which she had passed, and the Life-boat stood by until daylight. She then returned to Yarmouth and arranged for a tug to be sent out. With the aid of the tug the drifter refloated on the rising tide and was brought into harbour about noon.— Rewards, £35 12*..