DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 5.15 P .M.

message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had been mined three-quarters of a mile east of Tynemouth Piers. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 5.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched, and found the motor vessel Jolly Girls being towed by the examination cutter X2. The crew of ten of the Jolly Girls were on board the cutter, one of them with a broken leg.

Before the cutter reached harbour with her tow, the Jolly Girls sank. The life-boat accompanied the cutter to the North Shields Fish Quay where the ten rescued men were landed. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.15 P.M. - Rewards, £27 10s.