The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey and the Insti- tution's steam-tug were called out for service at 8 P.M. on the 6th March. A telephone message stated that signals of distress had been reported N.N.E.

from Pentire, and the crews were mustered. There was a strong N.N.W.

gale with heavy squalls and the sea was very heavy. The Life-boat and tug after proceeding to the position indicated cruised about all night without being able to find the distressed vessel. They then returned within a short distance of Stepper Point, when the Coastguard signalled the position of the vessel.

They immediately returned and at 9.20 fell in -with the steamer Fjordheim, of Christiania. Her propeller was broken and she signalled that she wanted to be towed into safety. Ropes were got on board from the tug and accompanied by the Life-boat she was taken to Barry, where they arrived at 10.35 P.M. on the 7th, the men in the attendant Life-boat being much exhausted from exposure.

The next day the weather being very bad the tug and Life-boat remained at Barry and on the morning of the 9th March started for Padstow, which was reached about midnight. The FjorSheim was bound from Venice to London and carried a crew of 22 hands..