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OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. As the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was returning to her station at about 2.55 P.M. after an unsuccessful search for an aeroplane she heard two loud explosions, and on reaching Spurn Point she saw a vessel sinking to the S.W. She went to her, and found seven men in two very small boats. The were from the motor vessel Sagacity, of London, which had struck a magnetic mine and had sunk. The life-boat took them on board, landed them at Grimsby and returned to her station at 5.25 P.M.- Permanent paid crew ; Rewards, 6s. 9d.