Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland.

—Very early on the morning of the 9th March, 1938, the coastguard reported that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of oats and 'potatoes, had run aground at False Emmanuel Head, Holy Island. The Holy Island life-boat was off service for overhaul and repair, and the Berwick-on-Tweed life-boat Westmorland was launched at 1.30 A.M.

A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat arrived at 2.30 A.M., and found that the Locksley's crew of five had already been rescued. A motor fishing boat manned by eight men, four of whom were members of the Holy Island life-boat crew, had put off from Holy Island and rescued them. The rescue had taken nearly three hours, and owing to shallow water and wreckage, was carried out with great difficulty and at some risk.

The Locksley became a total wreck.

—Rewards : Life-boat, £18 19s. Qd.; shoreboat, £7, also 10s. for fuel used and boat-hook lost..