NOVEMBER 2ND. - HARTLEPOOL , DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported down in Tees Bay, and at 2.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out to search for her.

She found nothing, but as she was returning at about 9.45 a morse message came from the coastguard saying that H.M. Trawler Loch Hope was aground on the west bank of the entrance channel to Hartlepool. A fresh wind was blowing from the N.E., a rough sea was running, and a rising tide was washing the trawler inshore. Two tugs had gone to her help, but there was not sufficient water for the tugs to get anywhere near her, and only a life-boat could stand up to the heavy seas and broken water. The master of one of the tugs asked the life-boat to take a wire to the trawler, and the life-boat went alongside the Loch Hope and passed her about 200 fathoms of wire. She then put back to harbour with the other tug, to consult the dock master. The first tug attempted to tow the trawler out, but the wire parted. The life-boat returned to the trawler, taking with her a naval officer of the auxiliary patrol.

She then took 200 fathoms of manilla rope from the tug to the Loch Hope, and this time the tug succeeded in refloating the trawler.

It was then about 1.30 in the afternoon, and the life-boat was back at her station at 2 P.M.

A letter of thanks was received from the naval authorities. - Rewards, £25 6s., also 19s. and property salvage case..