Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that a motor boat needed help outside the breakwater. At 11.10 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out, with the honorary secretary, Mr. A. S. Hicks, on board.

The sea was calm, there was a light north-westerly breeze, and it was one hour before high water. Using her searchlight, the life-boat found a 24-feet motor boat, with two men and a boy on board, on a fishing trip, three hundred yards south-by-west of Breakwater lighthouse. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Sutton Harbour and then returned to her station, arriving at 12.35 early on the 28th.—Rewards to the crew, £4 10s..