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Elisabeth

Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to Haifa, Syria, but she had been driven off her course. She had on board a crew of four, and a dog. A moderate west breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea, and the weather was thick, with rain. The motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 10.45 A.M., and found the Elisabeth high and dry. Her master said that he expected a tug at high water, and asked the life-boat to stand by. The lifeboat stood by all day, but no tug arrived, and eventually she went alongside the Elisabeth and took off the four men and the dog. She landed them at the quay, and returned to her station at 8.30 P.M., after having been on service for nearly ten hours.— Rewards, £31 5s..