Teesmouth, Yorkshire.-—At eleven •o'clock on the night of the 26th of November, 1952, the South Gare light- house keeper telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on the training wall in the River Tees, and that tugs which had been trying to refloat her had left her. She was fast by her bows and would be in a dangerous position at low tide. At 2.40 early the next morning the life-boat John and Lucy Cordingley was launched.

There was a moderate north-easterly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat found the motor vessel Moray Firth, of Newcastle, laden with slag. The Moray Firth settled by the stern as the tide ebbed, and the life-boat stood by her. When the tide flowed she rode with it, and as her crew said that her hull was not damaged, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at eight o'clock. Tugs refloated the motor vessel that morning.—Rewards, £18 15s..