Fowey, Cornwall.—About 5.40 in the evening of the 28th of August, 1949, the Polruan coastguard reported a vessel in distress three miles east-south-east of Mevagissey, and at 6 o'clock the life- boat C.D.E.C. was launched in a light westerly breeze with a calm sea.

She found the motor vessel Thelado, of London, in tow of two motor boats, about four hundred yards east of Gwinges Rock. She was on a pleasure trip round St. Austell Bay, but had struck a rock or submerged wreckage, had damaged her rudder and a pro- peller, and was making water. Other boats had taken off her passengers and had landed them at Mevagissey.

The life-boat took over the tow, beached the Thelado in Fowey Harbour and arrived back at her station at 7.45.

—Property Salvage Case.