CULLERCOATS.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January, the Life-boat Go-operator No.

was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the Danish s.s. Niord, bound from Copenhagen for the Tyne with a general cargo, which had stranded on a rock known as the Bear's Back, at Cullercoats, and was rolling heavily. The master having engaged the services of the Lifeboat men to get the vessel afloat, they laid out a kedge anchor about a hundred fathoms aft with wire rope fast to the steam-winch, and by this means the vessel's stern was hauled off into deep water; but she still held fast forward.

At the request of the master, who feared that the propeller had been lost, the services of a steam-tug were obtained before .further efforts were made to get the ship afloat, and at about 10.15 P.M.

the steamer was towed off the rock. The coxswain of the Life-boat boarded her, and she was taken into the Tyne and laid on the mud at Salmon's Quay, South Shields, as she was leaking badly..