Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At 7.30 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, the life-boat coxswain returned from sea and reported that wind and sea were rising. He kept watch. At 8.20 the coastguard rang up to say that two cobles were still at sea and others coming into the bay, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched.

A fresh northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell and heavy rain, which made visibility very bad. The life-boat searched, and two miles north of Church Point she found the coble Adventure and escorted her into the bay. There, with the other cobles which had returned earlier, they had to wait, owing to the heavy sea on the beach, until the tide had fallen. The life-boat stood by until all the cobles were safely beached and returned to her station at half past eleven that morning.—Rewards, £24 4*..