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The S.S. Kentwood

MARCH 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 12.15 A.M., the Great Yarmouth Naval Base requested the services of a life-boat for a vessel ashore at Walcot Gap, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 12.35 A.M. A moderate E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and it was raining. The life-boat found the S.S. Kentwood, of London, and stood by to await tugs which were expected at daybreak, but at 5.15 A.M. the steamer refloated on the rising tide. The life-boat put into Great Yarmouth and then returned to Cromer, where she arrived at 1.45 P.M. - Rewards, £42 8s. 6d..