FEBRUARY 27TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.

At eleven in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had asked for the services of the life-boat to search for survivors of a steamer which had been torpedoed about six miles south-west of The Lizard. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 11.35 and searched for three hours, but found only one dead body. She reached her station again at 4.20 that afternoon. Later it was learned that the steamer had sunk in three minutes, that eighteen survivors had been landed at Falmouth by other vessels, and that the body picked up by the life-boat was the only Englishman in a crew of Norwegians.- Rewards, £14 19s. 6d..