Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.25 A.M. on the 8th February, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore about a mile north of Benacre look-out.

A S. by E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, the night was exceptionally dark, and there was a thick fog. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at about 4.30 A.M., and found the vessel to be the Lowestoft steam trawler Lord Keith, inward bound from the fishing grounds. She was lying broadside on to the sea, which was breaking over her, and her crew of ten had taken shelter in the wheel-house.

Her small boat had been launched, and was hanging at her bows, swamped.

The life-boat anchored and veered in, but the crew did not want to leave, and so she hauled off again and stood by. At about 6.30 A.M. she veered in again and ran out an anchor from the Lord Keith. This began to drag as the Lord Keith bumped about, and the life-boat laid it again, and later on ran out another, and heavier, anchor.

She continued to stand by until 1.40 P.M., when a tug towed the Lord Keith off. Then, after finding that the Lord Keith was not making water, she returned to her station, arriving at 3 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..