St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Caroline Parsons was launched at 2.10 A.M. and found the ketch St. Austell, of Barnstaple, hove to. She was bound with a crew of four and a cargo of coal from Swansea to Guernsey, but had sprung a bad leak which had flooded her engine-room. Her crew were exhausted.

The life-boat put a man on board the St. Auslell and towed her to a safe anchorage in St. Ives bay. She stood by her until 10.45 A.M. and then towed her into harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at mid-day.

But for her prompt help the ketch and her crew would have been lost.— Property Salvage Case..