A feat that will be distinctive im the records of the British lifeboat service was accomplished this week, at night, by the crew of the Cromer" Ufeboat, on a treacherous sandbank: seven miles off the Norfolk coast. After a series of attempts during 86 hours by four motor-lifeboats, operating from a coastline of 50 miles, three merchant vessels,' andi destroyer, to save a part of the crew of the Dutch all-tahker: Georgia (5,111 tons), which had broken upon the' Haisborough Sands, the Cromer liteboatmen \were: able to effect a magnificent rescue of 15 men.
At 11.80 on Sunday night, the Georgia, after 30 hours of buffeting: in the storm between the Thames. and the Wash, went aground, and im twenty minutes she broke in, two, Imost exactly in the middle, " The stern part, carrying 16 membots of. the crew, including the second' officer, drifted away, and these men were rescued last ovening by the Dutch steamer Front (1,822 thus) The forepart of the vessel, however remained embedded in the Hanis borough Sands, with the captain of the ship, Mr, Harry Kissing, afd 14 members of the crew aboard. They crouched together in the forecastle without food or water for 40 hours until the Cromer lifeboat brought them off.
'Time after time the lifoboais on the Norfolk coast, from Or mer, Gon ind Southwold, went out rt of the wreck, but 60 the gale and so heavy the seas that none of them could get nearer than 60 yards,. Again and again they threw lines' across the battered hulk, but all either snapped or were swept away by the pest. The Bourd" of Trade ished down by road special life-ving apparatus from London, while the Admiralty tried to help with a destroyer, the actual rescue was effected langoly owing to the bursting of the oil container of the tanker. This somewhat smoothed the waters, and the Cromer boat, dashing in, despite the fact that it was several times itted right out of the water by heavy waves, managed to take off the Datch seamen who jumped successfully for their liv
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