JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.

At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of the two vessels which had been reported in difficulties the previous day, and the life-boat crew had stood by in readiness to launch to them. She had then gone out to the help of the other vessel, the Empire Scout. The Jan Van Goyen did not then need help. A gale was still blowing from the north-east, with hail squalls and a very rough sea. It was arranged that the life-boat should take aboard a Tees pilot at Hartlepool, meet the vessel at 12.30, east of the Fairway Buoy, and lead her into the Tees. The motor life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 12.15 and went to Hartlepool, but the pilot did not turn up, so she went without him to the position appointed. As there was no sign of the ship by two o’clock the life-boat returned and after consulting the senior naval officer launched again at 2.10. At 2.45 it was learned that the Jan Van Goyen was in sight, and, with a pilot on board, the life-boat put out again. The life-boat put the pilot on board and returned at 3.15 that afternoon. The Tees pilotage authority expressed their thanks to the life-boat crew for “carrying out a difficult task under extreme hazards.“ - Rewards, £17 12s. 6d..