JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.50.

An easterly wind was blowing, with a strong ground swell. The life-boat found the steam trawler Remagio, of Grimsby, with a crew of ten on board. She had been homeward bound with fish, when a German aeroplane had bombed her, and the skipper had run her ashore. In the heavy swell the life-boat had great difficulty in getting alongside, but she succeeded and made fast. One man fell from the trawler’s rigging into the sea, and was rescued from the shore. The life-boat rescued the remaining nine, but two of them, in jumping for her, fell between her and the trawler and it was only with great difficulty that they were seized and dragged aboard.

The rescue lasted 55 minutes, and all the time the crew knew that on board the Remagio was an unexploded time bomb. One of the rescued men had had his: hand badly crushed and, as there was no doctor on Holy Island, the life-boat made for Seahouses so that he might have it attended to as soon as possible. She arrived at 4.45 in the morning and left again at six, arriving back at her station at seven. - It was a service marked by skill and determination, and an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew.

Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £14 2s.; additional rewards to crew, £4 ; total rewards, £18 2s..