Humber, Yorkshire—At about 2.30 A.M. on the 29th August, 1938, a message was received from the Donna Nook coastguard that a vessel five miles S.S.E. was firing rockets. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick, with rain. The relief motor life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 2.50 A.M.

and found the s.s. Salerno, of Hull, bound laden from Oslo for Hull, ashore at Saltfleet. She was lying broadside on to the sea, which was breaking into her, but the life-boat managed to get under her lee. At the master's request, two life-boatmen boarded the Salerno, and the life-boat ran out an anchor from her. With the help of this anchor the Salerno was refloated on the flood tide. She went on her way, and the life-boat returned to her station at 9.15 A.M.—Property Salvage Case..