Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 10.55 P.M. on the 22nd June, 1939, a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets 3| miles to the N.N.W.

A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 11.30 P.M. She found the vessel to be the s.s.

Ernrix, of Hull, loaded with wheat, on passage from Hull to Thornaby-on- Tees. She had sprung a leak, and was sinking when the life-boat arrived and rescued her crew of ten. The life-boat returned to her station at 3 A.M. Later the tug Kings Cross attempted to tow the Ernrix in, but she sank.—Rewards, £12 19*..