Falmouth, Cornwall.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the dock police- reported a yacht in difficulties off Castle Head. A southerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and she was in danger of being swamped.

At 5.30 the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched and found a fourteen-feet yacht close inshore and making for the harbour.

The life-boat rescued her crew of two, towed the yacht in, and arrived back at her station at 7 o'clock that evening.

—Rewards, £7 8s..