Penlee, Cornwall.—At 6.25 on the night of the 27th of January, 1951, the Penzer Point coastguard telephoned that the commander of the cable- laying ship Ariel, half a mile off Newlyn Pier, was sick. Two doctors were on board. The coastguard asked for them to be taken ashore by the life-boat, as the weather was too bad for a shore- boat to get alongside the Ariel. Ac- cordingly at 6.37 the life-boat W and S was launched in a heavy sea with a strong south-south-east breeze blowing.

She took the two doctors and the patient to Newlyn, where an ambu- lance was waiting, and arrived at 7.30.

The life-boat stayed there until next day.—Rewards, £15 6s. 6d..