ENGINE FAILED AND NO SAIL Seaham, Durham.—At 11.56 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1947, the coastguard reported information from Hawkthorn Towers that a b"oat was.

adrift and in need of help, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched at 12.20. A strong west- north-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the fishing boat Hopeful, with a crew of three, about eight miles south-east of Seaham. Her engine had broken down and she had no sail. The life-boat towed her to Seaham, arriving at 2.45 in the afternoon.-—Rewards, £9 17s..