JANUARY 15T H . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 10.5 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported a vessel sounding S.O.S. to the N.W. of the Gate Ship.

A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. It was very cold. Accompanied by the naval salvage officer, the motor lifeboat City of Bradford II put out at 10.20 P.M.

She spoke several vessels all of which hadheard an explosion and the S.O.S., and at 11.45 P.M. came up with the minesweeper Lady Stanley, which had on board the crew of eleven men of the steam trawler Stalker, of Grimsby. The trawler had been damaged by a mine dropped by parachute from a German aeroplane. The life-boat took the eleven men off the Lady Stanley and landed them at Grimsby. The trawler herself was taken in tow by a tug and beached in a sinking condition. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.10 A.M. - Paid permanent crew : Rewards, 18s..