On the evening of the 4th January a S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea and rain, and as a small fishing boat, with one man on board, had not returned, it was thought advisable to send a life-boat out to search. The No. 1 motor life-boat, John and Sarah Eliza Stych, was launched at 9.10 P.M. After a difficult search, owing to the fact that the small boat carried no lights, she found her in Daymer Bay. The man was taken into the life-boat and the boat was towed back to harbour. But for the life-boat's help the boat and man would have been lost. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.30 P.M.—Rewards, £15 10s..