Padstow, Cornwall.—About 7.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the Newquay police had reported a boat on fire in Watergate Bay. The No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadmck put out in a calm sea with a light north-north-east breeze blowing. While at sea she learnt that the boat was believed to be not in Watergate but in Fistral Bay.

She made for Fistral Bay in a flooding tide and found the yacht Dawn Star, of Cork. She was not on fire. She had been at anchor following an engine breakdown, but had broken adrift and had gone ashore. Her crew of four had been rescued by a helicopter. Two life-boatmen boarded the yacht and the life-boat towed her to Padstow, arriving at 1.40.—Property Salvage Case..