On the after- noon of the 13th May the sea got up, and the local motor fishing cobles William and Arthur, and B.S. Colling, which were out crab and lobster fishing, were in danger of being swamped.

The life-boat coxswain had been on the look out all the afternoon, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 5.35 P.M. She met the William and Arthur about one mile east and escorted her into harbour.

She then put out again, met the B. S.

Colling about one and a half miles N.E., and escorted her in. She returned to her station at 6.35 P.M.—Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..