Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and the weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. A boat attempted it but was driven back, and at 10.45 the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, embarked the pilot and left her moorings. She found the motor vessel Taranaki, of Southampton, put the pilot on board and reached her station again at noon.

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