DECEMBER 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

About eight at night some of the life-boatmen saw a ship signal SOS by morse and fire a rocket, and at the same time the coastguard reported a vessel in distress about six miles north-west of Cromer. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 8.15 in a light westerly wind, with a slight swell. She found the ship to be the M.V.

Lady Sophia, bound from Scapa Flow to Rochester, with a crew of five. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat signalled for a tug, but as the Lady Sophia was drifting helplessly towards the shoals off Cromer she took her in tow to keep her in deep water, and made for Great Yarmouth. The tug Richard Lee Barber met them off Haisborough, took the Lady Sophia in tow, and, with the lifeboat in attendance, reached Great Yarmouth just before eight in thee morning. After the life-boatmen had had breakfast the life-boat left Great Yarmouth at 10.45 and got back to Sheringham at 3.30 that afternoon. - Property salvage case.