Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At half past ten in the morning of the 30th of January, 1948, the coastguard gave warning of an approaching gale. As several fishing boats were at sea the life-boat's coxswain stood by. At 11.30 he reported that the sea had become dangerous, and at noon the motor life- boat Augustus and Laura was launched in a heavy south-south-east gale with a rough sea. She found eight local fishing boats one and a half miles from home, escorted them all to safety, and returned to her station at half past three.

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