Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.15 early on the morning of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1953, the South Gare coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Albano, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had gone aground in Tees Bay and had asked for tugs and a pilot. She was in a dangerous position on the Saltscar rocks off Redcar, and at 3.15 the life- boat John and Lucy Cordingley was launched. The sea was calm with a light south-westerly breeze blowing.

The life-boat found the Albano stranded, with old wrecks on each side of her. The life-boat stood by her until the Albano refloated and was taken in tow by a tug. She then returned to her station, arriving at 3.25.—Rewards, £34 18s..