HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather was hazy. They at once gave information to the coxswain of the Life-boat, who immediately summoned the crew, and at 2.15 A.M. the Algernon and Eleanor was launched and pulled to the vessel, which was reached at about 3 o'clock. It wasfound that she was the s.s. Hayle, of and for Aberdeen from Sunderland, coal laden.

She -was stranded on the reef but was not leaking at all, and the Life-hoat men therefore took out an anchor, as the sea was too high to allow one of the ship's boats to do so. This operation was performed twice, and was attended with success, the vessel being got off at about 8 A.M., and proceeding on her -voyage..