NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a very thick fog and it was very cold. The crew of the nearest life-boat, the Cullercoats boat, were out fishing, and the coastguard could not get into communication with the next nearest station, Tynemouth, so the Blyth life-boat Joseph Adlam, was launched at 10.30. At eleven o’clock she found H.M.

Submarine Tuna ashore on the rocks with H.M. Examination Vessel Sedulous aground just ahead of her. The Sedulous had been leading the Tuna in from the sea through the fog when they went ashore. The life-boat went close in. As she did so the submarine, which was rolling heavily, suddenly fell over on her beam ends, throwing one of her men into the water. The life-boat rescued him.

As the tide was falling the submarine commander asked the life-boat to take off his crew, and she took aboard about sixty men.

The commander himself and several of the men remained in the submarine.

Meanwhile, at 11.35, the district officer of coastguard had succeeded in getting into communication with the Tynemouth station, and the motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, was launched at 11.45. She reached the scene of the wrecks at 12.40, and found the Blyth life-boat engaged in taking the men off the submarine. She stood by.

The Blyth life-boat now returned to Blyth and landed the rescued men of the submarine at the naval base. There she was asked totake them back to the Tuna again about three in the afternoon, when the tide would have turned.

The Tynemouth life-boat was still standing by, and at one in the afternoon a tug arrived.

The life-boat took a wire hawser from her to the submarine and by means of this the tug kept the submarine’s stern on to the swell and the on-coming tide. At 1.45 another tug came up and this also, with the life-boat’s help, was connected with the submarine.

The life-boat then remained alongside until the tide was flowing and the submarine came up on a more even keel.

At 2.50 the Blyth life-boat left harbour again with the sixty men from the submarine, which she reached at 3.25. She then stood by until the submarine refloated at 4.15 and put the men back on board her.

So far the life-boats had not been able to do anything to help the examination vessel, which was further inshore than the submarine, and when the Tynemouth life-boat went close to her at 3.45 she found her still fast aground. Her crew had put out a kedge anchor, but had not succeeded in refloating her. The life-boat now took a rope from her and by keeping this taut was able to haul the vessel stern on to the swell, and prevent her from swinging broadside on to the rocks.

The Blyth life-boat, having put the submarine’s crew on board her again, now came up, and she too took a rope to help in keeping the examination vessel stern on to the swell.

The thrust-shaft bearing of the Tynemouth life-boat was now found to be over-heated, and the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 6.30 in the evening.

The Blyth life-boat, from 5 until 5.30, held the examination vessel stern on to the sea.

Tugs then arrived, and the life-boat connected her to them with wire ropes. The tugs succeeded in towing her off and both the Tuna and the Sedulous made for Blyth harbour.

The Blyth life-boat herself arrived back at her station at 7.30 in the evening. The fog had been dense the whole time. - Rewards, Blyth and Tynemouth. Property salvage cases..