NOVEMBER 7TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. During the afternoon news came that a vessel had been mined south of Holland Point. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at. 5 P.M., and found that the mined vessel was H.M. Drifter Reed. There was only one survivor of her crew. He was badly injured and had been picked up by a speedboat.

The life-boat searched the wreckage, but could find no one else. She took the survivor on board and the motor-mechanic gave him first-aid. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.15 P.M., and the injured manwas taken to Colchester hospital. There he died later. - Rewards, £12 3s..