Paul Therese
Penlee, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 21st January, 1939, the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger. A southwesterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. The news was received from the coastguard, and the motor life-boat W and S was launched at 4.35 A.M. She found the trawler near the rocks between Penzance and St. Michael's Mount and one of the life-boat crew boarded her. He roused her crew and the life-boat towed her out of danger. Her crew then got the engine going and she followed the life-boat clear. She returned to Newlyn Harbour, and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 7.15 A.M.—Property Salvage Case..