At 11.30 A.M.

on the 20th February, during calm smooth weather, Coxswain Jones of the Life-boat James Cullen received a telephone message from the Coastguard asking him to launch the Life-boat as quickly as possible as a steamer had been torpedoed by a submarine. The boat was promptly launched and with a volunteer crew proceeded in the direction indicated by the Coastguard. When about three miles S.E. of Lynas the Life-boat fell in with one of the ship's boats containing twenty-one men. The majority of the men were only slightly clad. They were taken into the Life- boat, which was afterwards picked up by a Government boat and towed to Amlwch Harbour. The vessel was the s.s. Cambank of Cardiff..