NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 10.30 P.M. the coastguard at Donaghadee reported a steamer ashore in Belfast Lough. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rough. A later message asked for help, and the motor lifeboat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 11.45 P.M., Mr. David McKibbin, the honorary secretary, going out as a member of the crew.

At Wilson’s Point the life-boat found the Polish motor vessel Lewant ashore. She was a vessel of some 3,000 tons, bound for New York, and she had a crew of thirty. The captain said he wanted tugs, and asked the life-boat to stand by him as his ship was holed and in a dangerous position. The lifeboat put Mr. McKibbin ashore at Bangor to telephone for tugs, and then returned to the Lewrant. She stood by until the arrival of tugs at daybreak, and returned to her station at 9.30 A.M. The Lewant was got off with the help of the tugs at about 4.30 P.M. - Rewards, £17 12s. 6d..