MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 2.30. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found a small boat, with thirteen men on board, close to the breakers on Haisborough beach. They belonged to the 3,600-ton steamer Corduff, of Newcastle-on-Tyne ; she had been sunk by an E-boat ; some of her crew had been lost ; two of them had been taken prisoner to Germany ; and two of those in the small boat were injured. The life-boat took the thirteen men on board as quickly as possible and made at once for Cromer, so that the two injured men might be landed and given treatment without delay, but when she reached the slipway, it was impossible, in the sea that was running, to put them ashore at once. In the end they were put ashore at 7.45. A letter of appreciation was received from the Battery Commander at Happisburgh.

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