Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a man at Hope Cove had reported hear- ing a wireless message that a vessel was in distress in Mevagissey Bay. At 5.45 the life-boat Dencys Keitz put out.

The sea was rough, a moderate south- south-west gale was blowing, and it was high water. The life-boat made for the position and learned from another vessel that the motor vessel Festivity, of London, which had a crew of eight, needed help 011 the eastern side of St. Austell Bay. The life-boat found the Festivity dragging, with two anchors down, eight hundred yards south-west of Polkerris. Her engines were running at full speed. The life- boat stood by until the wind moder- ated and veered and the Festivity weighed her anchors and made for Fowev. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 11.30. The skipper thanked the life-boatmen.— Rewards, £14 5s..