Redcar, Yorkshire.—While homeward bound for Grimsby, on the morning of the 25th September, 1939, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with fish and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar.

The weather was hazy with a heavy swell from the northward. She burnt flares and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched to her help at 9. P.M. She took off four members of her crew. Four of the remaining men were taken off and landed by a boat which had put out from the shore, and the other three got away in their own boat and made for the life-boat.

The life-boat then stood by for some hours, and as the weather had improved, she put the seven men on board the trawler again. At 1 A.M.

they were able to refloat her under her own steam, and the life-boat returned to her station at 1.20 A.M.—Rewards, £14 4:8.

(See "Shorcboat Services," Redcar.).