JANUARY 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.42 A.M. the coastguard reported that a sailing barge had struck a mine to the S. by E., three quarters of a mile from Holland look-out hut, and had blown up. A light S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight swell. Without waiting for a full crew, the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched within eight minutes, but found only wreckage. The barge was the Resolute, of Mistley, bound from London to Ipswich, laden with wheat. She had a crew of two.

Her skipper had been rescued by another barge, which transferred him to the lifeboat and she landed him at Clacton at 2.30 P.M. - Rewards, £4 16s.