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Reja

Flamhorough, Yorkshire.—At about 10 P.M. on the 2nd April the coxswain received information of a steamer blowing, and believed to be ashore.

The weather was very foggy and a S.E.

wind was blowing, with a heavy swell.

Searchers found the vessel about a mile and a half west of the station, and the No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat, Jane Hannah MacDonald, was launched at 10.45 P.M. She was rowed to the position and there found the motor vessel Reja, of Groningen, carrying a crew of about six, and bound with a cargo of scrap-iron from London to Grangemouth. The life-boat stood byuntil 5 A.M. on the 3rd and then ran out a kedge anchor with 150 yards of wire rope. At 8 A.M. the Reja was successfully refloated and anchored in the bay. The life-boat returned to her station again at 9 A.M.—-Property Salvage Case..