Cullercoats, Northumberland. —At 1.32 P.M. on the 23rd April, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a motor drifter on fire about two miles east of St. Mary's Island. A moderate N.N.E.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 1.44 P.M. and found the Aberdeen motor drifter Saxon enveloped in smoke and flames.

The crew of three had just been rescued by a boat from a passing steamer.

They were transferred to the lifeboat.

She took two of them to North Shields and one to Cullercoats, and returned to her station at 3.40 P.M. The Saxon drifted ashore on Whitley beach and became a total wreck.—Rewards, £7 10s..