Padstow, Cornwall.—At 11.30 on the night of the 27th of May, 1955, a man at Rock telephoned that his son had come ashore in a dinghy from his motor launch Wavehopper and had reported that the launch had broken down off The Mouls with four people on board. Th man who telephoned asked for the life-boat, and at 12.10 on the 28th the No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chad-wick put out. The sea was calm, a moderate north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the Wave- hopper, an cx-R.A.F. launch, four miles off Tintagel, rescued the four people and towed the launch to Pad- stow, reaching her station again at seven o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £7 106'.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l Is. The owner made a gift to the life-boat crew, who made a dona- tion to the funds of the Institution..