Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.51 in the afternoon, on the 9th of May, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel off the harbour blowing for help. At four o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens put out in a thick fog. The sea was heavy with a light northerly wind blowing. A quarter of a mile east of the harbour the life-boat found the local steam trawler Loddon, which had put out half an hour earlier, with a crew of ten. She was aground. At the skipper's request the fife-boat stood by until a tug refloated the trawler, when all three vessels returned to harbour.

They arrived at half past five.— Rewards, £6 Is..