Salcombe, Devon.—At 6.14 on the evening of the 13th of October, 1953.

the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was burning- flares half a mile west of Prawle. At 6.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north- easterly breeze blowing. The life- boat found two men in a small motor boat. She was drifting, and the life- boat towed her to Salcombe, arriving at 8.15.—Rewards, £7 16s..