On the afternoon of the llth October the assistant motor mechanic reported to the coxswain that a man had put off in a small boat from the pilot boat to go ashore on Piel Island, but had been caught by a heavy squall, had lost control of the boat, and was being blown rapidly out to sea. A moderate to strong N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea when the motor life-boat N.T. was launched at 3.5 P.M. She came up with the boat just as it was getting into rough water, and the man, exhausted and very wet, was rescued.

He was taken into the life-boat, and his boat was towed back to Piel. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 4.15 P.M.—Rewards, £7 15*. dd..