Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.43 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a small vessel in distress. Twelve minutes later the life-boat The Princess Royal—- Civil Service No. 7, was launched. A moderate gale was blowing from the south-south-west and the sea was rather rough. The life-boat found the motor fishing vessel Saltburn, of Mid- dlesbrough,-carrying a crew of three, one and a half miles north-east of Heugh lighthouse, disabled by an engine breakdown. She put a rope aboard the fishing boat, and towed her to Hartlepool, arriving at half past eleven.—Rewards, £7 12s..