JANUARY 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

After dark the naval motor fishing vessel 1165 ran on Corton Beach, and the mate scrambled ashore to get help. At 10.35 the coastguard informed the life-boat station, and at 10.47 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. The coastguard’s life-saving apparatus was also called out.

A north-north-easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. Owing to shallow water the life-boat could not get alongside the vessel. Three of the crew of six scrambled ashore unaided and the life-saving apparatus rescued the other three. The life-boat stood by during the rescue and until two o’clock next morning, when she returned to her station, arriving at 2.30. The vessel became a total wreck. - Rewards, £11 5s..