FEBRUARY 27TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

Shortly after 5 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel making a distress signal two and a half miles S.S.W. of Orfordness, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy Lavers was launched at 6.30 A.M., after a way had been cleared through the barbed wire and other defences. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. The life-boat found the barge Martinet, of Poole, laden with cement for Norwich from London with the seas washing over her, went alongside and rescued the crew of three. Not long afterwards the Martinet sank. - Rewards, £25 14s. 6d..