Apple dor e, Devon.—At 4.38 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Sea silver, of Newcastle, bound for Amster- dam, appeared to have her engine broken down, off the Bar Buoy, and needed a pilot. A north-west gale was blowing with a very rough sea. It was too rough for any other boat to put out and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 4.55 with the pilot- She put him on board the Seasilver and then escorted her into harbour, arriving back at her station at 5.45.—Rewards, £78*..