DECEMBER 29TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.

About three in the afternoon a motor fishing coble was seen to be in distress to the southeast of Seaham, and at 3.43 the motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched, in a moderate north-north-westerly wind, with a moderate sea. She found the coble Three Brothers, of Sunderland, with her engine broken down, and no sail. There were three men on board. The life-boat towed her into Seaham harbour at 4.20 that afternoon.- Rewards, £7 11s..