Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.15 A.M. on the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that a steamer had run ashore about a quartei of a mile south of the West Pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.

The motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was launched at 12.25 A.M., and found the s.s. Therese, of Swansea, upon the beach. She stood by until it was seen that the Therese was in no immediate danger, and that nothing could be done then to get her afloat, and returned to moorings at 1.30 A.M. The crew stayed on watch, and the life-boat put out again at 7.15 A.M. in case her help should be wanted. She passed a hawser from the Therese to a tug, but it parted. Nothing more could be done on that tide, and the life-boat returned to her station and was rehoused at 11 A.M. At 8.45 P.M. she put off for the third time, at the request of the master of the steamer and Lloyd's agent. By means of her line-throwing gun a hawser was got from the tug to the steamer, but this attempt to tow her off also failed, and the life-boat returned finally to her station at 10.50 P.M.—Rewards, £16 7s.; also Property Salvage Case..