Lowestoft, Suffolk.—-At 7.15 A.M. on the 25th November, 1938, the life-boat assistant motor mechanic saw a vessel aground on Newcombe Sands. There was a heavy swell on the sands, and the sea was moderate, with a freshening S.S.E. wind. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 7.25 A.M.

and found the s.s. Dunleith, of Poole, with a crew of ten, on passage from Portsmouth to Edinburgh. She had gone ashore at 5 A.M. in a fog. At the master's request the life-boat stood by.

Three times the steamer refloated and grounded again. Eventually she got outside the sands and the life-boat escorted her clear and brought her to the North Roads. Her master then reported that she was not making water and thanked the life-boat. The lifeboat reached her station again at 9 A.M.

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