DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.

Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.

A message for immediate help was sent to the Flamborough Head signal station, and at three in the morning the Flamborough motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched. She found the vessels five miles north-north-east of Flamborough. The Cormoat had on board fifteen of the crew of eighteen of the Empire Tigaven. These she transferred to the life-boat as she wished to go to the Tyne, and she went, leaving the life-boat to stand by the Empire Tigaven.

After about two hours her master, still on board her, asked the life-boat to return his engineers, but it was only with much difficulty that one was put on board. The lifeboat was damaged in doing it, and drifting ropes fouled her propeller and stopped her engine. By this time the Filey motor lifeboat, The Cuttle, which had been launched at 3.30, arrived. She towed the Flamborough life-boat to Filey, although the tow-rope twice parted. There the fourteen men from the Empire Tigaven were landed, and the Flamborough life-boat was hauled out of the water by the Filey helpers and her propeller cleared. Both life-boats then returned to stand by the Empire Tigaven, the Flamborough boat taking with her the steamer’s chief engineer and boatswain. The master wanted both these men, and with difficulty the chief engineer was put on board, but the boatswain stayed in the life-boat. A tug arrived about two in the afternoon and the life-boats were able to leave, but there was too much sea for the Flamborough life-boat to return to her own station, so both boats made for Filey, where they arrived about 3.45, over twelve hours after they first put out.

It was a long and arduous service both for the two life-boat crews and for the helpers at Filey, and an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of both crews and each of the Filey helpers. Standard rewards to the Flamborough crew and launchers, £46 6s., additional rewards to the Flamborough crew, £9 ; total rewards to Flamborough, £55 6s.

Standard rewards to the Filey crew and launchers, £39 1s. 6d. ; additional rewards to the Filey crew and launchers, £27 ; total rewards to Filey, £66 1s. 6d..