NOVEMBER 17TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Early in the evening the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen from a sailing barge aground in Spitway, and at 7.32 P.M. the motor life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden was launched. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found that the barge had refloated. She was the Saltcote Belle, bound with wheat for Colchester. The life-boat stood by her for half an hour to see if she was damaged, and, as she was not, the barge went on her way and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £15 6s..