JANUARY 19TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

At 12.3 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a large vessel was ashore about one mile south of South Carr.

A north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was extremely cold, with showers of snow. The Dunbar life-boat was unable to launch on account of the weather, and Anstruther could not launch until the tide rose. It was now low water. At five o’clock the coastguard again asked if the lifeboat could go, and at 5.55 the motor life-boat N e l l i e a n d C h a r l i e was launched. She reached the position given about 7.30, but owing to the darkness and heavy snow she could see nothing. At daybreak, about nine o’clock, she saw the S.S. Empire Clansman, of Grangemouth, with waves breaking over her mast-high. No one was visible on board, but she could see a breeches buoy and a line from the shore. After lying about one hundred yards off for an hour without being hailed the life-boat returned, reaching her station at noon, after six hours at sea. Later it was learned that the steamer’s crew had been taken off by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £14 18s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £7 ; total rewards, £21 18s. 6d..