Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. It was decided to send the motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk to investigate, and she was launched at 10 A.M. She picked up the boat, with one man on board, about a mile off Thorpness.

The man, who was in exhausted condition, had left Zeebrugge for Greenwich on the night of the 14th, but had met bad weather all the way over.

He was taken on board the life-boat and given stimulants, and his boat was toweid to Lowestoft, which was reached at 1.30 P.M. When the crew had had a meal and the weather had moderated a little the life-boat left for Aldeburgh, arriving at 7 P.M.—Rewards, £1816s. 5d..