NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderatesea. The life-boat found that the Admiralty mine-sweeping trawler Ethel Taylor had struck a mine and was sinking, and she rescued the last man aboard. The others had already been rescued by a naval drifter.

Two other mine-sweepers attempted to tow in the Ethel Taylor, but she sank. The lifeboat returned to her station at 6.45 P.M.- Rewards, £20 15s..