AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the life-boat was required.

A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Milburn was launched at 4.35 P.M., reached the lighthouse at 5.30, took on board the three keepers and landed them at Seahouses at 7 P.M. The life-boat reached her station again at 8.0 P.M.

At 12.30 next morning a message came from the coastguard that the naval authorities wanted a bomb disposal squad and the chief keeper taken out to the lighthouse. The life-boat was launched at 11 A.M., and landed the party at the Longstone at 1.15 P.M. by means of a small boat which she had towed from Seahouses. She left the lighthouse again at 2.30 P.M., put the bomb disposal squad ashore at Seahouses, and returned to her station at 4.15 P.M. - Rewards : first launch, £7 15s. 6d. ; second launch, expenses defrayed by the Admiralty..