Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 6.46 A.M. on the llth October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a smooth sea. At 7.10 A.M. the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched.

She found the s.s. Commar, of Panama, on the sands, about a mile from the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. Help was declined by the pilot of the steamer, but the life-boat stood by until high water. The Commar refloated and went on her way, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11 A.M.—Rewards, £8 4*. 6d..