Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of the Lizard.

At 12.30 the Porthoustock coastguard confirmed the message, and at 12.45 the life-boat William Taj/lor of Oldham was launched. The sea was rough,I and a fresh west-south-west breeze was \ blowing. The life-boat made a search in an ebbing tide and found two bodies ten miles south-east of Coverack.

They were from the coaster Carpo, of Rotterdam, which had foundered off the Lizard early the previous morning.

The life-boat took them on board and then continued searching, but found nothing else and returned to her station, arriving at 4.20.—Rewards, £13 17s..