JANUARY 28TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At 8.20 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground at Seaton Carew. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, but the vessel did not appear to be in any immediate danger. As, however, she continued to sound her whistle the motor lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at 9.55 A.M. She found the S.S. Sandenburgh, of Rotterdam, on Longscar Rocks, hut she could not go alongside, for the steamer was high and dry, and the crew could have walked ashore. The life-boat returned to harbour at 10.45 A.M., intending to go out to the steamer again later. Then a request for her help came from the naval salvage officer, who was sending out two tugs, and the life-boat put off at 2.15 P.M. The tugs could not get near the Sandenburgh as there was now a swell on the Longscar Rocks, and the life-boat cruised round until 3.15 P.M.

She then took off three British and five Dutch members of the crew, but the remaining thirteen Dutch members of the crew decided to stand by the ship. The eight men were landed at 4.10 P.M.. - Rewards, £10.