Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 7.20 in a south-easterly breeze with a moderate sea. She found the cutter, with a crew of two, half a mile north of the Bell Buoy, out of control with her engine broken down, and towed her to the Pool, reaching her station again at nine o'clock.—Rewards, £9 3s..