During the afternoon of the 15th May the small motor yacht Heather Bell, of Blyth, put to sea from Berwick.

The easterly wind was light, but a heavy swell was breaking on the bar.

Some time later she was seen making for the harbour entrance, and as she appeared to have difficulty in getting in, the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 4.20 P.M. to her help.

She found that three men had gone out in the yacht, but one had been washed overboard and been drowned. One of the remaining two men was taken into the life-boat and two life-boatmen got aboard the yacht which was then taken safely into harbour, with the life-boat in attendance. But for the help of the life-boat the yacht and her two occu- pants would probably have been lost.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 6 P.M.—Rewards, £6 Is. 6d..