MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.20 A.M. with a boarding boat in tow for landing on the island. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain.

The life-boat delivered the letter and returned at 2.30 A.M. - Expenses paid by the Admiralty.