Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the King's Harbour Master reported that the motor vessel Drakedene, of Cardiff, with a crew of nine, had dragged her anchors and was on the rocks near Jennycliff. At 9.46 the life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck left her moorings in a fresh south-westerly gale with a rough sea. Mr. A. S. Hicks, M.B.E.

the life-boat honorary secretary, went with the crew. At the master's request the life-boat stood by the Drakedene.

She hoped to get off the rocks on the flood tide. About eleven o'clock two tugs arrived, but they could not approach the Drakedene and about two o'clock she refloated under her own steam. The life-boat then escorted her to a safe berth, and returned to her station, arriving at 2.55 in the morning.

The master and her crew thanked the life-boatmen.—Rewards, £14 5*..