OCTOBER 28TH - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 7 P .M. t h e coxswain was asked by the coastguard to assemble the crew, and at 7.35 P.M. the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched, with instructions to go to a position two and a half miles N.E. of Tynemouth Pier. A light S.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found the S.S. Suffolk Coast, of Liverpool She had been mined.

She was not seriously damaged and was able to reach the Tyne under her own power, escorted by the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.35 A.M. - Rewards, £27 10s..