FEBRUARY 28TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 4.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at five minutes past five. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow showers. The life-boat found the S.S. Margaret Lockington, of Dundalk, bound for Newry with a cargo of coal and a crew of nine. She had gone ashore at “ Wrek Port “. The tide was ebbing, and when the life-boat arrived it had gone down sufficiently for the coastguard life-saving rocket apparatus to rescue the crew from the shore. The life-boat stood by, however, until daylight, as the seas were so heavy that it was impossible to signal to the shore by lamp.

When day came the life-boat learned that all the men had been rescued, and returned to her station, arriving at ten that morning.- Rewards, £36 14s. 8d.