OCTOBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At about 5.10 A.M. the Workington coastguard reported a red flare five to six miles away in a westerly direction, and asked for the life-boat crew to stand by. A westerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. At about 6 the coastguard asked that the life-boat should be launched, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite put out at 6.45 A.M. Off Whitehaven she found the motor fishing vessel Karen Maria, of that port, with a crew of four, in tow of another fishing boat. The engine had failed. Escorted by the life-boat the two fishing boats reached Whitehaven safely, and the life-boat returned to her station at 11.30 A.M. - Rewards, £13 12s..