At 5 A.M. on the 16th January the Coastguard reported to the Honorary Secretary that a vessel was ashore about a quarter of a mile north of Britannia Pier. The Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched in a fresh S.S.W. breeze, with a rough sea, and found that the vessel was the auxiliary motor vessel Hawarden Castle, of Chester, which had gone ashore on the main while bound, laden, from Boston to Ostend. Her captain told the Cox- swain that he had struck some sub- merged wreckage, had broken a pipe and carried away a seacock, and, as water was coming in rapidly, had had to beach his vessel. As he did not require any help the Life-boat returned to her Station, arriving at 12.40 P.M.— Rewards, £21 8s..