JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of Skegness. There was a thick fog, but no wind, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 7.22. She found that the landing craft had  sunk, but that three injured survivors were aboard H.M.S. Gadfly.

She brought them ashore, arriving at 9.45.

Nine other men were reported as missing from the landing craft. She had probably hit a floating mine. - Rewards, £10 7s.