Whilst the motor Life-boat, which has been sent very recently to Sunderland, was out for exercise on the 21st June, the Coxswain observed a small boat about three and a half miles off the port show- ing signals of distress. He immediately ran down J;o her to find that she was a mooring coble with two boys in her in a very exhausted condition. The wind was blowing very strong from the S.W. with a nasty choppy sea, and the coble was half filled with water. The boys had gone out for pleasure and had been blown out off the land. They were taken on board the Life-boat and the Life-boat towed the coble safely into harbour..