HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.

and a heavy sea. The boat when first seen was near the Bondicar Keef of rocks, but when the Life-boat reached her she had been driven some distance N. of the Hauxley Keef buoy. She was taken in tow by the Life-boat and, with her crew of three men, safely landed on Hauxley beach. The crews both of Life-boat and fishing-boat were thoroughly drenched by the seas which broke over them..