APRIL 16TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 7.35 in the evening a message was received from the Craster coastguard that a vessel had been torpedoed while in convoy, nine miles northeast- by-north of Craster, and had sunk within sight of shore. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 7.45 the motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched.

She saw another steamer in the convoy heave to, and then go on her way ten minutes before she herself arrived and presumed by this that this steamer had picked up any survivors, for though she made a long and extensive search among the wreckage, she found only two empty life-boats. She brought them ashore, arriving at 11.15 that night. - Rewards, £15 9s..