Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 2.27 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel to the eastward was making S.O.S. signals on her syren. The motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched at 3.30 in a moderate south- easterly breeze with a moderate sea, but grounded on a sand bank. She got off at 4.20. When she started her search she met a fishing boat and to- gether they found the steam drifter John Watt, of Fraserburgh, stranded on the rocks on the south side of Flimborough Head. The second coxswarh went aboard the drifter and the Jife-boat laid out an anchor for her and passed a tow rope from her to the fishing boat. .The weather was getting worse, so the life- boat stood by until the John Watt was refloated at 7.30 that morning. She arrived back at her station at 8 o'clock.

—Property Salvage Case..