MERITORIOUS CONDUCT – As a poor man was fishing near the mouth of the river Tyne, on Saturday last, his boat drifted from her moorings, and was carried out to sea; the wind at the time blowing strong from thewest with an ebb tide. In this state the poor man, who had hoisted a signal of distress, was observed by the crew of a foreign vessel, which hove to and threw him a rope. Soon afterwards the rope broke, and the boat again drifted to sea. Some pilots and fishermen, of Cullercoats, by the help of their telescopes observed this accident, and knowing it was impossible for the poor fellow to make the land, they manned one of their best cobles, and, in the course of an hour, overtook the boat, which they found to be in a sinking state, and the poor man in it quite exhausted and helpless from fear and fatigue. They had to run several miles to the north before they could again make the Cullercoats Harbour, where they landed the poor man and his boat in safety, being themselves completely drenched, from the sea breaking over them, against a strong ebb tide and head wind. The names of the humane and brave men, and Francis Storey and his son Robert, Thomas and John Storey, his nephews, William Scott, William Stoker, Matthew Arthur, and Thomas Mills.

THE NEWCASTLE JOURNAL SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1848

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