DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.

About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather was foggy.

At 5.30 A.M. the motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched and found that the vessel was the m.v. Rosedene, in ballast for Seaham. At her master’s request the lifeboat took out an anchor, and then stood by until the Rosedene had refloated. She returned to her station at 10.55 A.M. - Property salvage case..