30th November.

The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's boat.

The sea was rough, rain was falling, and a moderate westerly breeze was blowing.

The sinking steamer was seen by the coastguard, and the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. put out at 9.5 A.M. She found that a Mevagissey fishing boat, which was not far away when the steamer sank, had already rescued the crew.

They had had no time to collect their belongings before leaving the ship, and were landed at Fowey with only the clothes they were wearing. There they were cared for at the Missions to Sea- men's Institute.—Rewards, Life-boat £6 13s ; the Mevagissey fishing boat, £2..