FEBRUARY 13TH . - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 12.40 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s boat was drifting five to six miles off Cromer. A northeast wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.

At 1.13 P.M. the No. 2 motor life-boat Harriot Dixon. was launched. She found the boat, but it was empty. She then saw another boat two miles farther east. This also had no one on board. A large tanker was then seen at anchor and the life-boat went to her for information. The tanker told her that the boats were from the tanker British Triumph, of London, which had been mined and wrecked. She had taken on part of the British Triumph’s crew and had then transferred them to a tug. The life-boat returned to her station, with the two ship’s boats in tow arriving at 6.20 P . M . - Rewards, £20 14s: 3d.