OCTOBER 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 6.57 A . M . a message was received from the port war signal station that a vessel was ashore off the Tyne, north of Souter Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and there was a moderate swell. At 7.30 A.M. the motor lifeboat John Pyemont was launched and found the S.S. Cairnglen, of 9,000 tons, ashore.

The life-boat was asked to stand by until the arrival of tugs. When the tug George V arrived the life-boat passed a rope from herto the steamer, but attempts to refloat the steamer failed. As the tug was remaining with her, and the tide was ebbing, the lifeboat returned to her station. It was arranged that the life-boat should put out again and stand by the Cairnglen at the next flood tide, when further attempts would he made to float her, but at 3.30 P.M. a message came asking for the immediate help of the lifeboat.

She found the Cairnglen still fast H.M. tug Watermeyer had now arrived and the life-boat, with great difficulty in the heavy seas, got tow ropes from the tug to the steamer, but again it was impossible to haul her off, and later in the evening she broke her back. The captain now decided to abandon ship, and thinking that the risk of attempting to board the life-boat in the heavy seas would be too great, he asked that a rocket line should he fired from the coastguardcoastguard life-saving apparatus on shore. This was done and the crew of forty-nine were landed by breeches buoy. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.15 P.M. - Rewards, £27 3s.