Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock the life-boat George Elmy was launched. There was a moderate sea and a moderate south-easterly breeze, and it was two and a half hours before high water.

The life-boat found the Jean Horsley a hundred feet from the shore in a dan- gerous position. She had lost one of her anchors and was dragging the other. The life-boat towed her to Seaham, arriving at 7.30.—Rewards, £12 15.9..