DEC. 4TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At 2.45 A.M., a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the S.S. Accrington, of Grimsby, was in the roadstead with twentytwo survivors of the crew of the S.S. Hamsterlay.

One of the crew was missing. The Hamsterlay was in a convoy, had been in collision, and had sunk. A fresh S.W. by S.

wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and at 3.10 A.M. the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched. She went alongside the S.S. Accrington and took off the survivors.

Some of them were nearly naked. They were made as comfortable as possible in the cabin of the life-boat. The life-boat landed them at the Town Hall Quay, where vehicles were waiting to take them to the Sailors’ Home. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.40 A.M. - Rewards, £17 19s..