JANUARY 16TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.

A vessel was seen to be very near the Whitburn Steel Rocks, flying distress signals.

An E.N.E. gale was blowing, with snow squalls. The sea was rough. At 10.20 A.M.

the motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched. She found the vessel to be the S.S. Stanlake, of London, a collier, bound for the River Tyne. She was a quarter of a mile off the shore, N.N.E. from Roker.

She had gone on the rocks. The life-boat stood by, and later put back for tugs, but in the rough weather none would go out, so the life-boat returned to the Stanlake and stood by her until she was able to get off the rocks under her own power. She made for the Tyne and the life-boat returned to her station at 2.20 P.M. - Rewards, £10 17s. 1d..