The motor life-boat Elliot Galer was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 1st August, as the coastguard had tele- phoned that the sailing boat Nelly, of Leith, with one man on board, had capsized and sunk two miles south of Seaham, and two miles off shore. A moderate northerly wind was blowing with a heavy ground swell. The life- boat found that three men had put out from the shore in a rowing boat and rescued the man. He was transferred to the life-boat, which towed the rescuers' boat to a spot where she could be safely beached, and then landed the man at Seaham. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 1.35 P.M.—Rewards, £4 19s. Qd..