Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

•—The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood put out at 9.50 A.M. on the llth March for exercise, with the branch chairman, Lieut.- Commander H. K. Case, D.S.C., R.N.R.

on board. A light N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was foggy. When the life-boat was clearing the piers, the St. Nicholas lightship was heard firing signal guns. Her master said that a vessel was ashore about one mile E. by N. of the lightship. The life-boat found her to be the motor vessel Zuidland, of Rotterdam. She was in shoal water and in danger of going aground. The life-boat piloted her into a safe channel, and returned to her station at 12.15 P.M.—Rewards, £14 13*..