Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles east-north-east of Hartlepool. The position was later given as ten miles to the east-north-east. At 9.10 the Hartlepool life-boat The PrincessRoyal, Civil Service No. 7 was launched. The sea was very rough, a whole gale was blowing from the south- east, and the tide was flooding. At 8.55 the South Gare coastguard tele- phoned the Teesmouth life-boat sta- tion that the Martje had asked for a life-boat to take ashore two injured men, and at 9.50 the life-boat John and Lucy Cordingley was launched. She came up with the Martje fourteen miles east of Hartlepool light and with difficulty took on board the injured men. She then wirelessed this news to the Hartlepool life-boat and returned to her station, arriving at 4.30 on the morning of the 9th. The Hartlepool life-boat returned to her station at four o'clock.—Rewards, Hartlepool, £22 16s. 6d.; Teesmouth, £21 14s..