Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.44 on the morning of the 19th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corchester, of London, had collided with another vessel two miles west of Haisboro' lightvessel, and that the CorcJiester was .sinking. At 7.57 the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was a rough sea and a strong north-easterly wind, with squalls of snow. The tide was flood- ing. Two miles west of the lightvessel the life-boat came up with several ships and saw that all that remained of the Corchester above the surface was her stern. Thirteen of her crew of twenty-one had reached the S.S.

Cormull in a ship's boat. The life- boat searched for the eight other members of her crew but found noth- ing. One of the eight had been found by the men in the ship's boat, but he was dead. The Cormull took his body on board and asked the life- boat if she would land it. It was transferred to the life-boat, and as the weather was too bad to allow her to be rehoused at Cromer, the life-boat made for Great Yarmouth, arriving at 1.5. She remained there and was taken back to her station on the morn- ing of the 21st. The owners of the Corchester made a gift to the members of the crew.—Rewards to the crew, £26 18s. 4d.; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £22 175..