Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly breeze and pro- ceeded into Bideford Bay. About two miles west of Westward Ho! she found the men struggling in the sea. The dinghy had collapsed. The men were picked up and given attention in the life-boat, which reached her station again at 1.20. The men made a gift to the Institution.—Rewards, £8 4*..