The Life-boat > Co-operator No. 2 was launched at 12.45 P.M. on the 30th December during a S. W.

\ gale to the assistance of the fishing- boat Fearless, which was observed in distress about four miles off Ilfracombe.

The Life-boat picked up the endangered boat and took the two men on board.

She then started to return home.

Owing to the strong flood tide, she would ; have been unable to fetch the harbour for some hours, had a patrol vessel ' not put off and towed them back to harbour, where they arrived at four o'clock..