MR. J. K. BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station, and seven other men, have been awarded certificates of commen- dation of the Royal Humane Society.

They helped to rescue five men of the crew of the Liberian ship Liberty which was wrecked on the Cornish coast on the 17th of January, 1953, in a very heavy gale. The five men had got from the wreck on to the rocks, and the seven men, at great risk to themselves, hauled them ashore. The rest of the crew of thirty- eight of the Liberty were rescued by the coastguard life-saving apparatus.

The Sennen Cove life-boat was called out, but it was not possible for her to get alongside the Liberty because of the rocks..