AUGUST 28TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At ten at night the coastguard telephoned that a light had been seen to the south. A south-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. A watch was kept, and when a flare was seen it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Anne Allen. She was launched at eleven o’clock, and after a difficult search found the motor cruiser Silver Spray a mile south of Chapel St. Leonards. The Silver Spray’s engine had broken down. She had anchored off Snettisham, Norfolk, but had broken adrift, and had been driven before the gale for seventeen hours. On board were the owner and his wife. Both were exhausted. The life-boat took the Silver Spray in tow. She broke adrift once, but the tow was reconnected and the life-boat brought her to Skegness at two o’clock next morning, and beached her.

Her owner and his wife were given hospitality by a Skegness hotel. They expressed their admiration of the life-boat’s work. - Rewards, £13 12s..