GREEK STEAMER SUNK BY ENEMY ACTION.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, ** Norfolk.—At 12.28 P.M. on the 24th October, 1939, a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S.

Wanderer expected to arrive in Yar- mouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a doctor and stretchers might be needed.

A moderate W.N.W. wind was blowing.

The sea was smooth. At 1.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched, met H.M.S. Wanderer abreast the Britannia Pier, and took off sixteen survivors of the Greek steamer s.s.

Konstantinos Hadjipateras, of Chios, which had been sunk by enemy action.

The life-boat landed the men, who were uninjured, and returned to her station at 3.38 P.M. The captain of H.M.S.

Wanderer told the life-boat coxswain that other survivors were on the s.s.

Crossbill, which would arrive in the roadstead at about 6 P.M. The life- boat remained afloat and at 6.50 P.M.

went out to s.s. Crossbill. She brought ashore seven men from her and returned to her station at 8.15 P.M.—Rewards, £28 11s. 6d..