Sunderland, Co. Durham. — At 3.30 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the deputy dockmaster telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a small boat was in distress. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched at 3.40 P.M. She sighted the boat twoand a half miles to the S.E. of the port, and found her to be the rowing boat Annie, of Sunderland. On board were two brothers, a young man and a boy.

They had gone out fishing, but had.