A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went aground, a total wreck. Her officers returned to her to bring ashore the safe. They found also the life-boat collecting box, battered, blown open, with all its paint gone, but, as the third officer wrote, "symbolical of its prototype it had safey carried its load and still contained the coins which had been contnnutea t v tne crew..