Nov. 21ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A message was received in the evening that an explosion and distress signals had been heard east of Withernsea, and the life-boat was launched at 7.35 P.M., just as an attack by a German aeroplane was being made on the Humber district. When the life-boat reached the position given she communicated with the Withernsea coastguard and was told that the explosion had been heard about four miles out at sea. The lifeboat made a thorough search but nothing could be found and she returned to her station half-an-hour after midnight. It was thought that the approaching aeroplanes had attempted to bomb a ship and that she had then made the distress signals which had been seen. - Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 4s. 6d..