CROMER OUT FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.20 in the evening of the 26th of October, 1947, the Palling coastguard reported that the motor vessel Gold Gnome, of London, was flying distress signals off Happis- burgh and the No. 2 motor life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched at 6.25. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the vessel, which was bound for Little- hampton with a crew of seven, anchored one and a half miles north-east by north of Happisburgh Lighthouse, with her engine broken down. The master asked the life-boat to stand by. The engine was got going again by 9.20. and with the life-boat in attendance the Gold Gnome made for Yarmouth. Her engine broke down again at one o'clock next morning, and in worsening weather she anchored about three-quarters of a mile north-east of the coastguard sta- tion. Then the master asked the life- boat to send for a tug, and one arrived at 10.45. The Gold Gnome's anchors had been dragging, and by this time she was nearly ashore. The seas were heavy, and the life-boat helped the tug to pass a tow rope to her. With the Gold Gnome in tow the tug made for Yarmouth, and the life-boat returned to her station arriving at 12.40 in the afternoon. She had then been out for over eighteen hours.—Property Salvage Case..