Nov. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon the S.S. Canada, of Copenhagen, bound for Hull, was badly holed by enemy action when twenty miles north-east of the Humber, and one of her holds filled with water. Forty of her crew, including five stewardesses, left her in the boats and were picked up by the Norwegian steamer Ringhorn. The captain and thirteen men remained aboard the Canada.

At 5.40 P.M. the Humber life-boat station received the news and four minutes later the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was away.

A moderate wind was blowing from the southeast.

The sea was very rough. An hour and three-quarters later she found the Canada at anchor about a mile and a half from the shore off Holmpton. The life-boat sent a message by morse to the coastguard for the help of tugs. Five arrived just after midnight, but in the heavy seas they could do nothing. The steamer was gradually filling. Her decks forward were awash. She had a list.

The life-boat stood by until daylight, when the captain of the Canada shouted to her to come alongside and take him to the nearest telephone to report to his agents.

The life-boat could not leave as the men on the Canada were in danger, but she took the captain off and put him aboard one of the tugs which were returning to the Humber.

By this time the steamer had a list of 45 degrees..JUST IN TIME.

The life-boat continued to stand by and the weather was getting steadily worse. At ten in the morning the first mate of the Canada signalled that he wished the rest of the crew to be taken off. By this time the decks were awash, and the deck cargo of timber was floating all round the ship.

Through this the coxswain took the life-boat, which was slightly damaged by the timber, and got alongside the sinking steamer. By 10.30 A.M. the thirteen men were on board the life-boat. She had lost no time in rescuing them and there had been no time to lose. Five minutes later the Canada heeled over on her broadside, and her crew on board the life-boat stood at attention with their caps in their hands as she went over.

Half an hour after midday the life-boat way back at her station. She had been out for eighteen and a half hours, and it had been a long, arduous and difficult service.

The Institution made the following awards: To COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, and £1 ; To each of the seven members of his crew, £1.

Permanent Paid Crew ; Standard Rewards £1 7s. ; special rewards to the crew, £8 ; total rewards, £9 7s.