OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.

About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, Mr. William S. Stanton, on board. A light south-east breeze was blowing, with a slight swell. The life-boat found the S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh, on the rocks. Her skipper said that he did not need help, but the lifeboat stood by as the steamer was bumping.

The skipper’s efforts to refloat her failed, and he said that he would make another attempt on the next tide. The Plasma was now high and dry, and the life-boat anchored in the Mermouth. She put out again at 9.30 next morning and found that the steamer had run out a kedge anchor. With the life-boat standing by, she hauled herself clear, slipped her anchor and cable and made for Amble.

The lifeboat picked up the anchor and cable and arrived back at her station at 12.30 that afternoon. - Rewards, £27 19s. 6d.