MAN THE LIFEBOAT !
LONDON, November 4. Tho lifeboat crews at Yarmouth, Caister, and Gorleston effected a thrilling rescue. Responding to signals of distress m the shape of brightly burning flares at sea, they launched their boats, and pulling out some distance found the herring steamer Emerald m a sinking condition. Tho lifeboats took off eight men who were still on board, and subsequently picked up five others who, m a small boat, had previously left the Emerald when she became waterlogged at tho fishing grounds. Those who stood by the sinking craft had managed to bring the vessel within a few miles of Yarmouth, when they succeeded m attracting the attention of the lifeboat stations by using kerosene soaked cloths as flares. The whole of the Emerald's catch of about 120,000 herrings was lost.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13230, 12 November 1913, Page 6
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