OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.

A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. At 6 A.M. the Seaham motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched, followed a quarter of an hour later by the Cullercoats motor life-boat Westmorland. They found the vessels to be H.M. Destroyers G51 and H78. Four tugs had come out to their help and the life-boats stood by. The Seaham life-boat returned to her station at 11.30 A.M. and the Cullercoats boat put into North Shields to wait there for the tide to rise. The life-boat was then asked, at 12.30 P.M., to return to the destroyers. This she did, and helped by running out a kedge and tow lines to the tugs. She then stood by until 5.45 P.M. and returned to her station st 6.30 P.M. - Rewards : Seaham, £11 6s. 6d. ; Cullercoats, £22 14s..