DECEMBER 7TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

When the evening came the local motor fishing boat Rose Mary had not returned and anxiety was felt for her safety.

About eleven o’clock the coastguard reported a small vessel making distress signals a quarter of a mile east of Heugh Light. A strong south-south-east breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at 11.5 and found the Rose Mary, with a crew of four, anchored on a lee shore.

Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Hartlepool and arrived back at her station at 12.25 next morning. - Rewards, £13 1s..