The motor life- boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 6.45 P.M. on the llth February, as information had been received that a vessel was aground between Start Point and Hallsands.

A light S.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth, but a dense fog had settled. The life-boat found the vessel to be the steamer Trito, of Rotterdam. Her master did not want any help, but the coxswain decided to stand by until she refloated, as he thought that she might have been holed by the rocks. The Trito re- floated at about 4 A.M. on the 12th, and it was found that she was not leaking, so she went on her way. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 5.50 A.M. She had been on service for eleven hours.—Rewards, £15 9*..