MARCH 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 5.50 P.M. information was received from the Cromer coastguard that what appeared to be a small white boat could be seen some six miles N.N.E. 1/2 E. Half an hour later the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth asked that the life-boat should go out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 6.20 P.M. A light easterly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth.

The life-boat found the object to be a partly submerged barrage balloon, took it on board, made a further search, but found nothing, and returned to her station, arriving at 9 P.M. - Rewards, £19 l6s..