Shortly be- fore 10 A.M. on 9th January information was received through the Coastguard that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, about half a mile N.W. of the Sizewell Bank Buoy. She was found later to be the s.s. Polaris, of Stockholm, carrying a crew of twenty-three, and bound from Stockholm to Rochester with a cargo of paper pulp. There was fog at the time, but the sea was smooth, with a light increasing S.S.W. breeze.

At 10.7 A.M. the Motor Life-boat Abdy BeauclerTc went out. The Coxswain and some of the Life-boat Crew boarded the steamer. They helped to get a tow rope on board from a tug which had arrived, and then took a hand in jettisoning cargo. Later the Life-boat took sound- ings round the ship, which eventually floated at the top of the flood tide at 11.20 A.M. After accompanying the Polaris for some distance the Life-boat returned to her Station at 1.10 P.M.— Property Salvage Case..