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Barnet

Penlee, Cornwall.—About 1.15 in the afternoon, on the 15th of July, 1950, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the trawler Barnet was drifting ashore about a mile east of Penzance lighthouse. She was engaged in the refloating operations of the Warspite, which had been ashore at Prussia Cove since April, 1947. At two o'clock the life-boat M.O.Y.E., on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a strong south-westerly breeze with a moder- ately rough sea. She found no body on board the Barnet, as everyone had already been taken off by the tug Freebooter; but at her captain's request she picked up the five men belonging to the Barnet, and landed them at Newlyn at 3.40. The M.O.Y.E. was returned to her station on the 17th of July.—Rewards, £14 6*..