Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.55 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat appeared to be drifting about three miles to the eastward, and that one of her crew was waving a flag on an oar. At 9.10 the life-boat Tynesider was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. E. Selby Davidson, on board, in a moderate sea with a moderate westerly breeze. She found the fishing boat Gypsy, of South Shields, with eight persons on board, three and a half miles east of Tyne South Pier. The Gypsy's engine had broken down, and as she was in danger of being run down in the darkness, the life-boat rescued those on boardand towed the boat to South Shields.

The life-boat reached her station again at 10.45.—Rewards, £7 Ss. 6d..