SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.

DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and there was a dense fog. The life-boat found the 6,000-ton steamer Bereby, of Newcastleon- Tyne, with a crew of 52. She was laden, and bound from Liverpool to West Africa.

The life-boat stood by until after daylight and then went with messages to Ardglass.

She returned to the Bereby and stood by again, waiting for a tug, but before it came a naval patrol vessel arrived, and the life-boat took two officers from her to the Bereby and back again. At 2 P.M. the tug arrived, but her efforts to refloat the steamer failed. As the coastguard life-saving apparatus was waiting on shore in case the crew of the steamer had to be rescued, the life-boat left for her station. As she passed John’s Point she was signalled to return to Killough to bring off a salvage officer. This she did, and it was not until 7 P.M. that she got back to her station.

Three days later, on the 27th September, the coastguard reported that five men, in attempting to land from the Bereby in the ship’s boat, had been wrecked on the rocks between the ship and shore. There they were marooned, waist deep in water. The life-boat was launched at 3.15 P.M. A S.W.

gale was blowing, with heavy seas. The lifeboat found that seven other men had put off in another boat from the steamer, and had rescued the five men, but rescued and rescuers were in a very exposed position.

The life-boat rescued them and landed them at Ardglass, where she also put ashore the ship’s papers, code books and chronometers.

She then returned to her station, arriving at 8.20 P.M. - Rewards : first service, £56 8s. ; second service, £47 4s..