OCTOBER 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At about 1.50 A.M. the naval authorities telephoned that the auxiliary patrolmotor boat Noel II, with four men on board, was having trouble with her engine and was adrift off the Heugh. A moderate S.W.

gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out at 2.19 A.M., picked up the disabled boat, and brought her in shortly after 5 A.M. She was rehoused at 11.30 A.M.

- Expenses paid by Admiralty..