APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their crab-pots. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with squalls of gale force, and the sea was rough. The Cromer coastguard were asked if they could see the boat, but visibility was poor, they could see nothing, and at 4.55 in the afternoon the Sheringham motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched. The second-coxswain was in command. She searched along the coast, and near West Runton found the Gwendoline on the rocks. In that wind and sea the two men had been powerless to prevent her from being driven ashore. They succeeded, however, in refloating her, and the life-boat towed her to Sheringham. When they got near the shore the life-boat passed life-belts to the two men, and stood by a little distance away while they came through the surf to the shore. The life-boat got back to her station at 6.10. - Rewards, £16 16s.