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A Small Boat

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6 P.M. on the 19th August the Sheringham motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched on exercise. Seeing an unusual object about a mile and a half off West Runton, she closed with it and found it to be a small boat with a man on board. He was a visitor to West Runton and had put out from there in the boat earlier in the afternoon. A strong S.W. breeze had sprung up, with a moderate sea and heavy rain, and his boat had been blown out to sea. When the life-boat found him he was wet through, cold, and exhausted. He was taken aboard the life-boat, and his boat taken in tow. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.5 P.M.—Rewards, £14 6s..