MARCH 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH A N D G O R L E S T O N , N O R F O L K . A t 10.56 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Italian steamer Amelia Lauro, of Naples, anchored in the roadstead off Britannia Pier, was making distress signals.

The steamer had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes on the 7th March, and set on fire ; her crew had been rescued and the steamer herself had later been towed into Yarmouth Roads and part of her crew put aboard her again. A light S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, when, at 11.5 A.M., the reserve motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on temporary duty at Gorleston, was launched. She found that the chief engineer was seriously ill, and brought him ashore, where an ambulance, for which she had signalled, was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.15 P.M. - Rewards, £12 19s. 6d..