DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

The Blyth motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was, launched at 3.15 P.M. and found a tug and a R.A.F. boat, which had picked up fifteen survivors. They were from the Swedish steamer Mars, of Stockholm, bound for London with wood pulp, and carrying a crew of twenty-two. The life-boat searched for other survivors, and found none, but she picked up the ship’s boat, took it in tow, returning to her station at 5.30 P.M.

Information had also been sent to the Tynemonth station, and the motor life-boat John Pyemont put out at 3.30 P.M. She searched, but found no survivors and r e t u r n e d t o h e r s t a t i o n a t 5 . 1 0 P . M . - Rewards : Blyth, £8 2s. 9d. ; Tynemouth, £12 10s..