DECEMBER 28TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 11.13 in the morning, the coastguard reported that North Foreland Radio had received an SOS call from the S.S.

Empire Gatehouse, formerly the German steamer Jutland. She had a fire in her bunkers and was carrying ammunition in her No. 2 hold. Her position was given as near the Shipwash Light-vessel. At 11.33 the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched in a strong north-north-easterly wind, with a choppy sea. In the meantime the steamer was making for Hollesley Bay and it was here that the life-boat found her about 12.30 in the afternoon. She stood by until the steamer’s crew had got the fire under control and then left, taking with her, at the captain’s request, six men of the crew of 26.

She landed them at Harwich, and returned to her station next day. - Rewards, £52 19s. 6d..