_ _ Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. — At 3.20 A.M. on the 16th September, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy action, 200 miles off the Fastnet Lighthouse, on theprevious day and that her crew had been picked up by the Norwegian vessel, Ida Bakke. The life-boat was asked to meet the Ida Bakke off the Fastnet, and bring the rescued crew ashore.

The motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Croszveller was launched at 4.30 A.M. A strong E. wind was blowing with a rough sea. The lifeboat fell in with Ida Bakke at 8.30 A.M., took on board the thirty-seven rescued men, and landed them at Baltimore, returning to her station at 4.55 P.M.—• Rewards, £14 16s. 6d..