At about 7 A.M. on the 19th October two young men started from Lynmouth with the intention of sailing to Porlock, but when off the Foreland the adverse wind and tide carried them about five miles out into the Channel. Here they got into difficulties and drifted helplessly in the tide. Their position was seen from the shore and as it was realized that they were in a position of great danger the crew of the Life-boat Prichard Frederick Gainer were as- sembled. It was dead low water at the time, and it was necessary to drag the Life-boat a considerable distance over the boulders before she could be launched. She then proceeded with all haste after the boat, which was found six miles off Lynmouth, with a con- siderable amount of water in her and her two occupants quite exhausted from rowing. 'The rescue was a timely one, as had the boat drifted two miles further she would certainly have been capsized in the heavy sea. When safe, the young men stated that they had hailed a passing steams and also a pilot, but neither had rendered them any assistance..