REFLOATING A STRANDED STEAMER Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of January llth, 1947, a steamer was seen to have stranded on the Caister Shoal, half a mile east by south of the life-boat station. She made distress signals. The coxswain was away and the motor life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 12.45 P.M. in charge of the second coxswain. The weather was foggy, with a fresh to strong south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. The steamer was the Ewell, of London, a collier, bound from Sunderland to London with 2,000 tons of coal. The life-boat stood by for twelve hours while tugs tried, without success, to refloat the steamer, and came ashore at 1.0 next morning. Six hours later she put out again, this time in charge of the coxswain, but again all efforts to refloat the steamer failed . and the life-boat came ashore at 2.15 in the afternoon. On the following day she made her third trip to the Ewell, leaving at 10.0 in the morning with shipping agents on board, and returned at 4.0. At 11.45 that night, January 13th, the steamer was refloated.— Property Salvage Case..