Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

•—At 1.40 P.M. on the 18th August the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired guns and hoisted signals to indicate a vessel in distress somewhere E. by N. of the lightvessel.

A gentle N.W. by N. breeze was blowing, with a ground swell on 4 the sands. The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood put out at 1.59 P.M. and found the threemasted schooner Six Sisters, of Hull, on the outer part of Scroby Sand. The Six Sisters was bound, in ballast, from Hull for Fowey, with three men and a woman on board. Her engine had broken down and there was not sufficient wind to handle her under canvas.

She had no food or water on board, and had been drifting in the North Sea for three and a half days. The life-boat passed over to her its own crew's emergency rations and stood by until a tug came up. The schooner refloated and was taken in tow by the tug. The life-boat then escorted them to Yarmouth harbour, and returned to her station at 6.10 P.M.—Rewards, £7 12s. 6d..