Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no sign of any crew, the coastguard telephoned about nine o'clock and asked for the life-boat.

At 9.20 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was launched in a moderate sea, with a fresh south-south-easterly breeze blowing, and came up with the motor trawler Excellent, of Barn- staple, four miles east-north-east of Hartland Point, but the trawler's crew of three were then on deck andhad got her under way. On the return journey the life-boat took the lobster boat Catherine in tow, as she was having a hard struggle against the wind and tide, and brought her back to Clovelly Roads, arriving at 12.15 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £12 8s..