SEPTEMBER 16TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE. At 9 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out to stand by the Dutch trawler Knikker - working from Fleetwood - which had on board survivors of the S.S. City of Bengal.

She herself was ashore on the east side of the harbour channel. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 9.30 P.M. and found the trawler crunching on the bottom. As the skipper declined to allow the lascars on board to leave for fear of panic, the life-boat stood by. On a rising tide the trawler refloated, and was directed into the channel and port by the life-boat, which reached her station again at 11P.M. - Rewards, £12 7s. 6d.