Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove and Hope Cove. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. News was received from the coastguard, and the motor life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 4.30 A.M. She found the Herzogin Cecilie pounding heavily on the rocks, and making water very fast.

She stood by until 8 A.M., when, at the captain's request, she took off twentyone of the crew and a woman passenger and landed them at Salcombe. After refuelling she put out again and stood by until 2.30 P.M. Then, as the coastguard's life-saving rocket apparatus had got a line on board, and the nine people remaining on the Herzogin Cecilie had decided to stay there, the life-boat made for home, arriving at 3.30 P.M. An increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale was granted to each member of the lifeboat crew.—Rewards, £12 16s. Gd..