St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the ketch Totland, with a man, his wife and four children on board, was drifting near the Stones reef. At 5.35 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched in a calm sea and with a light breeze blowing.

She found that the Tolland had broken down, and she therefore towed her to a safe position west of the reef. She then returned to her station, arriving at 6.25. The ketch broke down again the next day off Land's End and was towed to Mounts Bay by a fishing boat.

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