APRIL 6TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A message was received at 7.50 in the morning from the Foreland coastguard that a large steamer was sinking six miles to the south-south-east and that a destroyer was in the neighbourhood. There was a light south-west breeze and the sea was smooth.

At 8.21 the motor life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched, but found that the steamer had sunk and that her crew had been rescued by the destroyer. The sea was covered with floating wreckage but there was no sign of life among it. The life-boat picked up eight ship’s boats and towed them to her station, arriving at 1.30 that afternoon. Later they were taken to Portsmouth by an Admiralty launch. - Property salvage case..