The Lizard, Cornwall. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the police at Mullion that a sailing whaler, with a crew of six from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, including three members of the W.R.N.S., had capsized off Menti- heul Point, two miles south-west of Mullion Cove. At 3.24 the life-boat Duke of York was launched, with the second coxswain in charge, in a moder- ate sea. There was a strong north- westerly breeze, and it was half an hour after low water. The naval M.F.V. No. 686, which had been escorting the whaler and several other boats to Helford River, picked up the six people. The life-boat found the whaler waterlogged and towed her to Polpear, reaching her station again at 6.10. The Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose expressed thanks.

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