SEPTEMBER. 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 5.5 in the afternoon Lloyd’s agent asked, through the coastguard, if the life-boat could take out food to the S.S.

Brightside, of Dundee. A south-south-west breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a tug could not get alongside the steamer, which was anchored against the Inner Shoal. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 5.25 and found the Brightside in a dangerous position. Her engine and boiler were both giving trouble. Her crew had been without food for two days. The life-boat gave them food and returned to her station at 7.30. The coxswain kept a watch on the steamer. During the night the weather grew worse and tugs went out. Then the vessel began to drag anchor, and the life-boat crew were assembled at three in the morning, but later the weather moderated and the crew were dispersed. Eventually the steamer came into harbour under her own power.- Rewards, £11..