JUNE 3RD. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 1.20 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that news had been received that a ship had been bombed and was sinking some seven miles east of Coquet, and the motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was, launched at 1.50 A.M. A strong N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The life-boat found the S.S. Royal Fusilier, of Leith, of 3,000 tons, with a crew of twenty-nine. She had been bombed while on her way from London to Leith and was listing badly to port. Her crew had already been taken off by a destroyer. At the request of the destroyer, the coxswain put some of his crew aboard the steamer, and passed a rope from her to the destroyer, which took her in tow. The lifeboat had her gunwale damaged when the rough seas threw her against the destroyer and the steamer. She picked up and took in tow a ship’s boat, and returned to her station at 5.30 A.M. - Rewards, £10..