The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.

on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.

A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. There was fog and rain. The motor life-boat J. W. Archer, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 8.20 A.M. and found that the Grimsby steam trawler Capricornus, with a crew of nine on board, had stranded while returning from the fishing grounds. She was broadside on to the beach. The wind was increasing and a swell making.

As the flood tide made, an anchor hawser fouled the bilge keel and the vessel became unmanageable. The life-boat stood by and advised the skipper what to do until the tug Lynx arrived and took the Capricornus in tow for Grimsby. The life-boat returned to her station at 3 P.M.— Permanent paid crew: Rewards, 6*..