St. Helier, Jersey.—At 1.25 On the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1951, the harbour master reported that the motor vessel Le Cap, of Carteret, which had left St. Helier for Gorey with a crew of three, had wirelessed a distress message for immediate help. At 1.45 the life- boat Elizabeth Rippon left her moorings in a smooth sea with a fresh north- easterly breeze blowing, came up with the Le Cap near Frouqule A ubert Rocks.

She had hit a rock and was sinking.

The life-boat rescued two of the men, leaving the skipper in her, and then tried to take her in tow; but she was now low in the water. She therefore took off the skipper, abandoned the Le Cap and made for her station.

Here the life-boatmen gave the rescued men rum and landed them at St.

Helier, where an ambulance was wait- ing, at 4.0. The motor vessel Channel Coast, which had also answered the Le Cap's distress call, afterwards took the Le Cap in tow, but she capsized and sank. The three men thanked the life-boatmen.—Rewards, £8 0*. 6d..