At 11.30 A.M. on the 29th December the local motor fishing boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee were expected home. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with rain showers and fog, and a strong sea, coming with the flood tide, was breaking heavily at the harbour entrance. The motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 11.50 A.M. and put out to sea as far as the Rock buoy. Each boat as she made for harbour was met and escorted in, and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 1.20 P.M.—Rewards, £8 5s. 6d..