Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 1.10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Milburn was launched at 1.20 P.M., and found the s.s. Sphene, of Glasgow. She had a crew of eleven men on board and was bound for Dublin with a cargo of coal from Blyth. The steamer was leaking badly and the captain asked the coxswain to stand by. This the life-boat did until the vessel refloated at 2.50 P.M., and the steamer managed to reach Holy Island Harbour under her own power with the life-boat escorting her. The life-boat returned at 3.50 P.M.

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