NOV. 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 12.5 2 P.M. the Japanese steamer Terukuni Maru, of Tokio, bound for London, was sunk by enemy action about one and a half miles E. of the north-east Gunfleet Buoy. A light easterly breeze was blowing. The sea was calm. At 1.17 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched, and on reaching the sinking steamer found that the passengers and crew had been picked up from their own boats by the Trinity House boat Alert. The life-boat spoke the Alert and offered her help. As everyone on the steamer had been rescued, and the weather was fine it was not needed.

The life-boat, with other vessels, then searched the neighbourhood for an hour, but found nothing except a ship’s boat, which she towed back, reaching her station at 5.40 P.M.

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