_ _ Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.

—A telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life Saving Service at about 6.30 A.M. on the 15th September, 1939, asking that the life-boat should be sent out to meet the Norwegian motor vessel Ida Bakke. which had on board the crew of a steamer which had been sunk by enemy action. The motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosiveller, was launched in a calm sea at 6.45 A.M. and went to the Old Head of Kinsale. There she took on board the crew of forty-two of the oil tanker British Influence, of London. She then returned to her station and landed them at Courtmacsherry at 10 A.M.—Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..