Appledore, Devon. — At 9.20 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, a doctor told the coxswain that a woman and her daughter were in diffi- culties in the local motor boat Mahala of Crow Rocks and were burning flares.

At 9.30 the life-boat Violet Armstrong put out in a rough sea, with a fresh north-westerly breeze blowing. She made for the position in a flooding tide and found the Mahala on the rocks in a dangerous position. The life-boat res- cued the two women and towed the boat to Appledore, arriving at 11.15.— Rewards, £8 11s..