NOVEMBER 8TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.

At 8.45 at night the coastguard reported a red flare, and a few minutes later the position was given as north-west-by-west, ten miles from Peel. A very strong north-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea and some rain. At 9.45 the motor life-boat Helen Sutton was launched, manned by only five men instead of seven. She went on the course given for fourteen miles but saw only a convoy and a corvette. She returned at 3.40 next morning. An air-sea rescue boat which had also gone out was recalled on account of the weather. The life-boat’s crew of five had been out for six hours at night in very bad weather, and an increase in the usual money reward on the standard scale was made to each of them. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £22 4s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £3 2s. 6d. ; total rewards, £25 7s..