JANUARY 8TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 12.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that eight fishing cobles were out. A strong southerly wind was blowing. The sea was very rough and rising. At 12.24 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched and found the cobles about two miles off Church Point.

She first escorted into the bay the coble Ethel, whose engine had broken down. She then escorted in six more cobles. Only the Adventure remained. She also was having trouble with her engine, but the life-boat brought her safely in at 1.30. - Rewards, £24 18s..