On the 7th De- cember the s.s. Carricklee, of Sunderland, outward bound from Fremington to Sunderland with a cargo of clay, got into difficulties and ran ashore on Middle Ridge. She was carrying a crew of eight, and a dog. The coastguard at Northam Burrows telephoned the news, and the motor life-boat V.C.S. was launched at 7.27 P.M. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with a roujjh sea, and the weather was thick.

The life-boat found the steamer with seas breaking over her. As sheidrew alongside some loose iron on the steamer's belting fouled her and held her alongside for some seconds. This stove in her port gunwale, but it enabled the eight men and the dog to jump aboard the life-boat, although two men were slightly injured in doing so. The life-boat drew clear and returned to her station at 8.40 P.M.— Rewards, £20 Is..