WHALE FACTORY SHIP AGROUND Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 10.26 on the night of the 14th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Newarp Light-vessel that a vessel was aground on Winterton Bridge, three miles east-north-east of the light-vessel. A few minutes later he reported that flares for help had been scan, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 10.46. A fresh west-north-west breeze was blow- ing, with a rough sea. Two hours later the life-boat reached the vessel. She was the British whale-factory ship Balaena, of nearly 15,000 tons, with about four hundred men on board, and was on her way to Norway to take home Norwegian members of her crew. The life-boat stood by her, until she refloated shortly after three o'clock the following morning, and then returned to her station, arriving at seven o'clock.— Rewards, £25 19s..