APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.

A northerly pale was blowing with a very heavy sea. At 6.17 P.M. the coastguard reported that the barge had been seen coming out of a squall about six miles to the E.N.E.

She was making heavy weather. Her topsail had been blown away and she appeared to be flying a signal of distress. The No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 6.40 P.M. and about half an hour later came up with the barge Greenhithe, of London.

She was holding her own under her foresail and the life-boat escorted her into smooth water in Hollesley Bay. It would have been impossible in that gale for the life-boat to come ashore on the beach at Aldeburgh, and she made for Harwich, arriving at 10.30 P.M.

She returned to her station on the following day. - Rewards, £58 13s..