MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few minutes later the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out in a fresh S.E. wind, with a very rough sea and snow. At the request of the naval authorities a pilot went with her. She found the steamer in Tees Bay.

She was laden and drawing eighteen feet, which made it impossible to bring her into Hartlepool. With the life-boat guiding her the High Wear went into the River Tees, and the life-boat returned to her station at 11 A.M. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..