Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.

The boat appeared to have broken down, and at 3.40 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service No. 7 was launched in a flooding tide. She made for the position in a calm sea, with a light north-westerly breeze blowing, and found the local fishing boat Provider, with a crew of four. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Hartlepool, arriving at 4.50.—Rewards, £4 19*..