On the follow- ing day, the Greek brig Calamidas was in a very perilous position in Newquay Bay, during a strong N.N.W. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea. The Coast Guard attended with the rocket apparatus, but the ship was too distant from the shore to be reached by the rocket lines. The Life-boat James and Elizabeth'was launched, and proceeded as quickly as possible to the spot, a distance of about six miles.

Before, however, she arrived at-the wreck, 10 of the crew had taken to their boat, and rowed along the shore outside the breakers, seeking a place where they could best try to beach their boat. Arriving abreast of Mawgan Porth, they turned to run the boat in, and in a few minutes every man would inevitably have perished, owing to the tremendously heavy cross- seas running in the Cove, and the resist- less under-tow. At this moment the Life- boat was running up the coast under canvas on her way to the brig, on an opposite but parallel course to the ship's boat, and about 300 yards further from the shore-. The boats were passing each other at the time the ship's boat turned to run for the beach, but the sea was then running so high that the crews of the two boats could not see each other, although so near, despite the signals from the people on the cliff. At this juncture, when a minute later would have been too late, the ship's crew caught sight of the dark-brown sails of the Life-boat, as she was lifted on the crest of a wave. They at once pro- ceeded towards her, and were speedily on board the Life-boat, which was then only about a hundred yards from the brig. A few minutes afterwards the ship's boat, although a very fine boat, was struck by a heavy sea, which turned her over, filled her with water, and sent her among the rocks in fragments. The 10 rescued men were all Greeks. They were safely landed at Newquay Pier. Just before they reached the shore, the master gave the coxswain of the Life-boat to understand, by signs, that one of the crew had been left on board the ship, he declining to leave at the time the others made for the land. Having put the 10 men ashore, the Life-boat there- fore again proceeded to the brig, and, after an absence of three hours, returned with the man in question..