Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 23rd August, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a trawler ashore just south of St.

Mary's Island. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea.

The weather was foggy. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 6.20 A.M., and found the steam trawler Polar Prince, of North Shields, lying broadside on to the sea.

She laid out the trawler's kedge anchor for her, and this enabled her to haul her bows round to the sea and to ride comparatively safely. The life-boat then stood by until, at about 11.30 A.M., the Polar Prince was refloated with the aid of a tug. The tug towed her into North Shields, and the life-boat returned to her station at noon.— Property Salvage Case..