SEPTEMBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after one in the afternoon information was received that a vessel was in difficulties, and later it was learned that she was showing a distress signal. The weather was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 1.25 and a mile north of Sheringham found the Admiralty motor vessel No.

649. She was a new vessel, with a crew of six, and had broken down while bound north from a building yard. The life-boat towed her to Wells and then returned to her station, arriving at 9.45 in the evening. - Property salvage case..