JULY 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 6 P.M.

a message was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth that a destroyer, H.M.S. Valorous, was approaching the roadstead. On board were survivors from the S.S. Heworth, of Newcastle, which had been sunk by enemy action, and the destroyer requested that the life-boat should bring the survivors ashore. A moderate N.N.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 6.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Louise Stephens put out, with a doctor and ambulance men on board, and went alongside the destroyer in the roadstead. The doctor and ambulance men were put on board her, and then 14 survivors were transferred to the life-boat. Seven of them were injured, and five of these were stretcher cases.

They were all made as comfortable as possible on board with blankets, and the life-boat landed them at Lower Ferry steps. The injured were taken to hospital by ambulance and the others to the Sailors’ Home by coach.

The life-boat returned to her station at 8 P.M.

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