COLLIER HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.50 in the morning of February 10th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that North Fore- land Radio had picked up a call for help from a vessel in the Lowestoft area.

A strong easterly gale was blowing with very heavy seas, and it was bitterly cold, with showers of hail. The motor life- boat Michael Stephens was launched at 5.40 and found the s.s. Cambrian Coast, of Liverpool, five miles east-south-east from Lowestoft, bound from Newcastle fof London with coal, carrying a crew of eighteen. She was at anchor, rolling heavily, swept by the heavy seas, with a heavy list, her wireless out of order and her engine disabled, but her pumps working. After standing by for a time the life-boat came in at 10.30 in the morning to get a tug, and later the Cambrian Coast was towed into harbour.—Rewards, £8 15s..