Dfracombe, Devon.—-At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull Point Lighthouse that a vessel appeared to be ashore at Morte Point but that she had made no distress signals. At 4.37 another message came that she had asked for help, and at 5 o'clock the motor life-boat BicTiard Silver Oliver was launched in a moderate south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. She found the motor ship Amenity, of London, of four hundred and sixty tons, bound in ballast for Cardiff, with a crew of eleven, fast on the rocks.

The tide was on the flood and the life- boat stood by. With the help of the coxswain's advice, the Amenity was refloated and steered into deep water.

A life-boatman then boarded her and, escorted by the life-boat, piloted her into harbour, where she was beached.

The life-boat reached her station again at 8 o'clock that morning.—Rewards, £20 13s..