FRENCH FISHING BOAT IN PERIL St. Helier, Jersey.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 16th of September, 1947, a message was received from the har- bour office that two men had rowed ashore at La Rocque from the fishing boat Cormorant, of Dinan, France, and had reported that the Cormorant was anchored with her engine broken down and her sails blown away one mile south of Icho Tower. The motor life- boat Howard D. was launched at 8.25 in a moderate south-westerly breeze, with a slight swell. She made a wide search, found nothing, and was recalled to her station. At 9 o'clock next morning she renewed the search, and while she was out she received a wire- less message from her station that a boat with another in tow could be seen east of Jersey. There she found the Cormorant, with a crew of fourteen, in tow of another French fishing vessel, and^ escorted them to the harbour, arriving back at her station at 1.10 in the afternoon of the 17th.—Rewards, £26 14s..