Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the loth of October, 1955, eight fishing cobles put off to tend their crab pots, but the weather worsened and six of the boats returned. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched to search for the others, one of them being the coble Louisa Twyzell. The sea was rough, there -was a strong north-easterly -wind, and the tide was half flood. The life- boat came up with the cobles off New- biggin Point, escorted them in, and reached her station again at 12.15.—- Rewards to the crew, £7 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 5s..