NOVEMBER 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 3.55 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Brightling sea that a ship had blown up. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The motor life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden was launched at 4.50 P.M. and took on board doctors who had come out from Brightlingsea. Then she put out and met three naval drifters coming down from Gunfleet, with survivors from a naval patrol drifter on board; they were making for Brightlingsea. The life-boat returned to Clacton Pier at 6.40 P.M. and landed the Doctors. - Rewards, £10 18s. 3d.