FEBRUARY 3RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.

At 1.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s life-boat about 1 1/2 miles N. of Carr Rock, Berwick-on-Tweed, with men on board, was in need of help. A full E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. At 1.20 P.M.

the motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched, and she found the boat with eight men on board. They were part of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Tempo, of Oslo, which had been bombed and sunk earlier in the morning by enemy aircraft. The boat was almost waterlogged. The men were suffering badly from shock and exposure. The captain of the steamer was one of them, and he said that another boat with six men was adrift nearby. The life-boat searched for her, but could not find her and it was learnt later that she had gone ashore near Berwick, and five of the six men had been drowned. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.10 P.M.

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