At 10.25 A.M. on 4th December the Coast- guard informed the Life-boat Authori- ties by telephone that a boat was flying signals of distress four miles E.N.E. of Seaton Sluice Coastguard Station, and the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam promptly put out. A strong westerly gale was blowing with a very rough sea. She found that the boat— the motor fishing boat Sheila, of Blyth, with three men on board—had had her engine disabled by the water which she had shipped, and that her crew had been taken on board the s.s. Allegheny, which by this time was about eight miles oS the land. The fishermen were trans- ferred to the Life-boat, which, with the small boat in tow, returned to her Station, arriving at 12.15 P.M.—Re- wards, £7 6s. Qd..