Newbiggin, Northumberland.-At 11.30 on the morning of the 23rd of Novem- ber, 1955, a fisherman who had just come in from sea reported that the sea was heavy and becoming worse, with a gale blowing from the north-east.

Several fishing cobles were sti!l out, and at 12.22 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched. The tide was ebbing. All the fishing cobles reached safety, but the coastguard later re- ported that the Amble life-boat was approaching from the north, escorting the fishing coble Ocean Pride, of Amble. The Newbiggin life-boat came up with them off Cresswell, and both life-boats escorted the Ocean Pride to Newbiggin, which was reached at 4.30.—Rewards to the crew, £12; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 17s..