DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.

a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should land them.

A strong N.E. by E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 12.27 P.M. the motor lifeboat Louise Stephens was launched, and found on the steamer thirty-one survivors of the crew of the motor vessel King Egbert, and a pilot. The King Egbert had struck a mine earlier in the morning. and had sunk ; one man of her crew was missing. The life-boat took the men on board, landed them, and returned t o h e r s t a t i o n a t 2 . 1 5 P . M . - Rewards, £10 0S. 6d..