Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be drifting towards rocks near the bathing pool. At 11.10 the life-boat Isaac and Mary Balton was launched. She made for the posi- tion in a moderate swell and a flooding tide. A south-easterly gale was blow- ing. The life-boat found the fishing coble Elizabeth Taylor, of North Shields, with the life-boat second coxswain and his brother on board. The coble had broken her propeller shaft and had anchored, but she was dragging to- wards Table Rocks. The life-boat took her in tow and also escorted in a pleasure boat, which had engine trouble, reaching her station again at 12.9.—Rewards to the crew, £6; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £9 13*..