APRIL 11TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 5.45 P.M . the coastguard reported a ship sinking four miles S.E. at Littlehampton, and at 6.17 P.M. the motorlife-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing.

The life-boat found the wreckage of the Norwegian steamer Frode, which had been mined while in convoy. Guided by a smoke signal dropped by a searching aeroplane the life-boat found and picked up a man in the water, but he was dead. Motor launches picked up some survivors and several dead bodies. After searching until dark the lifeboat returned to her station, arriving at 10.20 P.M. - Rewards, £13 5s. 6d.