Early on the morning of the 17th May the life- boat watchman heard a vessel sounding SOS on her siren, and a little later the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a trawler was ashore near Kilnsea Beacon. She was the steam trawler Salacon, of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a crew of eleven. The motor life- boat City of Bradford II was launched at 3.45 A.M., in a fresh to strong W.N.W.

breeze, with a heavy ground sea. She found that the trawler had already dropped one anchor, and at the request of the master the life-boat laid out another. Then, as the crew of the trawler did not wish to leave her, the life-boat stood by. With the flowing tide the trawler was driven inshore before the sea, but when the tide ebbed she was out of danger. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving there at 10.30 A.M.—Property Salvage Case..