Holy Island, Northumberland. - 11.45 in the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, the coxswain saw that a fishing coble was in danger of driving on to the Megstone Rock, and the motor h'fe-boat Gertrude was launched at 12.20.

A fresh west-north-west gale was blow- ing, with a rough sea. She found a fishing coble Breadwinner II four and a half miles south-east of Holy Island.

Her engine-room was flooded, but her crew succeeded in getting the engine to start and the life-boat escorted her into harbour, arriving at 1.45.—Re- wards, £10 10s..