Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would take a doctor out. The weather was too bad for the agents' boat to go, and at 9.25 the life-boat George Shee left her moorings, with the second coxswain in charge.

She embarked a doctor and ambulance men at the inner pier, and then made for the steamer in a strong northerly breeze and rough sea. She found her at anchor at the mouth of Torbay and put the medical team on board, but the man had died. The doctor and the ambulance men then re-embarked in the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 11.10.—Re- wards, £6 16s..