Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 9.35 A.M. on the 12th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the St.

Nicholas Light-vessel was firing guns and flying signals indicating that a vessel was in distress to the E.N.E.

A light S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a swell on the sands, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 9.50 A.M., and found the s.s. Zeester, of Kamlen, Holland, on the east side of Scroby Sands. She had been aground but had just refloated with the rising tide. As the Zeester was in a dangerous position the lifeboat escorted her clear of the sands and as far as the Cockle Light-vessel.

She then returned to her station at 12.10 P.M.—Rewards, £7 3s..