JANUARY 25TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 8.40 A.M. to the help of the coastal steamer Spey, of Newcastle, which had run ashore on the rocks at the north side of Coquet Island.

An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and mines, which had been broken adrift by the rough seas, were floating about. At the third attempt the life-boat succeeded in firing a line over the Spey, and rescued her crew of five with the breeches buoy. One of them had a narrow escape. He fell out of the buoy, but was hauled into the lifeboat with the help of a boathook. The lifeboat returned at 11.30 A.M. - Rewards, £11 6s.