FEBRUARY 4TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

About five in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a trawler had arrived off Cromer with a small fishing boat in tow and had signalled asking for a boat to be sent out to tow the fishing boat to port. A moderate north-west wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The No. 1 motor life-boat H. F.

Bailey was launched at six o’clock and found that the fishing boat was the Valder, of Hartlepool, with her engine broken down.

The life-boat took her in tow about 6.30, and five hours later reached Great Yarmouth.

She arrived back at her station at four o’clock next morning. - Property salvage case.