JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .

a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not recognizable as distress signals. At 8.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched but found no ship in distress. She then spoke trawler, which told her that the trawler Adrian, of Lowestoft, had been in collision with an unknown steamer, and was believed to have sunk. Her crew had been picked up by the steamer, and would be landed at Leith. At Lowestoft the next day at 3.50 P.M. two trawlers were seen three miles at sea, about one mile S.E. from the South Holm Buoy. They were sounding distress signals. A S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 4 P.M. the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, and found that one of the trawlers was the Adrian, with large hole on her starboard bow below the water line. Her crew had abandoned her after the collision. The other trawler was towing her. The life-boat stood by, until a tug arrived and then escorted the Adrian while the tug towed her, stern first, across Newcome Sands into harbour and there beached her. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.50 P.M. - Rewards, Aldeburgh, 45 10s. ; Lowestoft, £20 9s.