JUNE 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.55 P.M. a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets three and a half miles to the N.N.W. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life- boat Louisa Polden was launched at 11.30 P.M.

She found the vessel to be the S.S. Ernrix, of Hull, loaded with wheat, on passage from Hull to Thornaby-on-Tees. She had sprung a leak, and was sinking when the life-boat arrived and rescued her crew of ten. The life-boat returned to her station at 3 A.M.

Later the tug King’s Cross attempted to tow the Ernrix in, but she sank.-Rewards, £12 19s..