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Caribia

MARCH 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Dutch motor vessel Caribia, which had gone ashore on the Scroby Sands, and to the help of which both the Caister and Gorleston life-boats had been launched on the 26th and 27th of February, was reported by the coastguard at 10.20 in the morning to be flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 11.5. The north-north-east wind was moderate, but the seas were rough, and it was snowing. As the life-boat approached she saw three men from the Caribia walking on the sands towards her. She anchored, fired her line-throwing gun and with a life-buoy pulled the three men through the water one by one. She was hitting the bottom as she did it, but got clear. She gave the men dry clothes and hot cocoa and landed them at Yarmouth, arriving back at her station at seven in the evening. - Rewards, £7 16s.