JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.

the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was cold. The life-boat reached the vessel about noon to find that she had got off and that a tug had her in tow. She was the S.S. Lieutenant Robert Mory, of Belfast, formerly of Boulogne, a vessel of over 3,000 tons, in ballast from London for Sunderland, with a crew of twenty-seven. A second tugarrived and joined in the tow. After towing northwards for a time the tugs altered course for Yarmouth Roads as it was feared that the steamer would not keep afloat long enough to reach The Humber. The life-boat kept with them and at 1.30 she took on board eleven of the steamer’s crew. From them she learnt that the Lieutenant Robert Mory was one of six vessels that had grounded on the Haisborough Sands, and that all of them had refloated on the rising tide. At about 5 P.M. ten more of the crew were transferred to the life-boat, followed later by the captain and five officers. They reached Yarmouth Roads at 10.15 P.M. where a salvage tug, which had been summoned by wireless, came out to take charge of the steamer. The lifeboat landed nineteen of her crew and put the other eight on board again. She then made for Gorleston, as the weather was too heavy for her to be taken up the slipway at Cromer. - Property salvage case..