On December 13th a telephone message was received from the Hope Cove Coastguard that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Greystones. The Motor Life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 4.45 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze, with a ground swell and dense fog, and eventually found the Spanish steamer Cantabria, of San- tander, ashore in Steeple Cove. She carried a crew of twenty-four, and had been bound with a cargo of iron ore from Santander to Newcastle. She had struck at the foot of a sheer cliff, and her crew, although they managed to scramble on to the rocks, were still in grave danger, as it was impossible to scale the cliffs, and the Life-saving Apparatus could not reach them from above. The Life-boat worked in and made fast to the wreck, and then, with great difficulty, owing to the heavy ground swell, the crew were taken off, two at a time, in a small boat, and put on board the Life-boat. She landed them at Salcombe, and returned to her Station, arriving there at 8.30 A.M.

The Cantabria became a total wreck.— Rewards, £19 7s. Sd..