NOV. 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At about 9.5 A.M . a very loud explosion was heard in the direction of the Lower Middle Buoy. A vessel. apparently on fire, was seen, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 9.12 A.M.

A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell. The vessel was the S.S. Mangalore, of Liverpool. Many of her crew had been thrown into the sea by the explosion, but when the life-boat arrived, she found that they had got aboard one of the ship’s boats. From this boat the life-boat rescued about thirty men, benumbed with cold and covered with oil. She then rescued about twenty more men from another boat, making a total of fifty-eight. The remainder, seventeen in number, were rescued by a pilot cutter. As the captain wished to stand by his ship the life-boat transferred a number of men to the pilot cutter, which took them to Grimsby, and then, with the captain and seventeen officers of the Mangalore on board, the life-boat stood by until one and a half hours later the steamer broke in two. She then landed the eighteen men at Grimsby and returned to her station at 1.30 P.M . - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 9s.