Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the life-boat.

At 9.50 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was launched, in a rough sea with a strong west-south-west breeze blowing. She met the Rocquaine approaching Clovelly Bay and guided her to Clovelly Roads. There she took off the injured men and landed them at Clovelly where a doctor and ambulance were waiting. She reached her station again at 12.35 that after- noon.—Rewards, £13 15s. 6d..