DECEMBER 5-6 TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.

At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare and might have to be abandoned. A northerly wind was blowing with squalls, and the sea rough. At 11 P.M. the motor life-boat J. W. Archer was launched, and found that the vessel was the steamer Daleby, of West Hartlepool. She anchored near her and remamed there all night. At 10 A.M. the next morning the master decided that the help of the life-boat was no longer needed, and she returned to her station, arriving at 11 A.M.

By the afternoon the gale was increasing and the sea was very rough. A message was sent to the master of the Daleby, suggesting that he should abandon ship, and at 5.30 P.M. the life-boat went out again, rescued the crew of 37 and took them to Middlesbrough. She returned to her station later when the seas had moderated.

At the request of the naval authorities the Hartlepool motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at 5.22 P.M. on the 6th, and reached the Daleby to find the Teesmouth life-boat taking off the crew. She returned to her station, arriving at 7.10 P.M. Rewards : Teesmouth, first service, £25 17s.. second service, £19 5s. 6d. ; Hartlepool £14 3s. 6d.