Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the steamer Catherine Hawksfield, on passage from the Tyne to Dover, picked up the motor boat Gypsy, sixteen to twenty miles S.E.

of Hartlepool. The Gypsy was towing the former Newbiggin life-boat to Goole. Her crew were in distress from exposure, and her engine had broken down. The steamer put into Tees Bay and called for the Hartlepool motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton to take charge of the Gypsy so that she could go on her way. The life-boat was launched at 10.45 P.M. and found three men on board the Gypsy in a state of collapse. One of them had been washed overboard, but had got back into the boat again. Two life-boatmen were put on board and the life-boat towed the Gypsy into harbour. She returned to her station at midnight.

The old Newbiggin life-boat was found drifting some days later and taken to Hull.—Rewards, £17 5s..