St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed, and carrying a crew of thirty-one. A strong W.

breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and thick fog. The motor life-boat Caroline Parsons was launched at 3.5 A.M., with great difficulty, owing to low water and to the carriage sticking in a dip in the sand. The life-boat felt her way through dense fog to Pendeen, but could find no trace of the Aida Lauro. She continued searching and eventually found her on the rocks at Castle Point, more .than two miles farther along the coast, and over ten miles westward of St. Ives. The steamer was close to the cliffs and broadside on to the sea. Owing to the rocks the life-boat was unable to get under her lee, but with some difficulty went alongside her weather side and rescued fifteen of the crew, two of them badly injured. She made for St.

Ives, arriving at 6.45 A.M. After landing the men and refuelling she put out again, but found that the remainder of the crew had abandoned ship, and had managed, at some risk, to get ashore in a ship's boat. The life-boatarrived back at her station at 10.50 A.M.

; A letter of thanks was received by the Institution from the Italian Government and the Italian Consul-General in London sent a letter of thanks to the coxswain and crew.—Rewards, £74 5s..