Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was heading south, makingwater and listing to starboard. She asked for the life-boat, and at 8.40 the Lizard coastguard rang up the life- boat station. At 9.5 the life-boat Guide of Dunkirk was launched and made for the position in a calm sea.

There was a light northerly breeze and the tide was ebbing. Accompanied by an aircraft which dropped flares, the life-boat found that the City of Ghent was sinking quickly and that her crew of seventeen had abandoned her in a boat. The life-boat rescued the men, circled the City of Ghent until she sank, and then towed the boat to Cadgwith, arriving at 10.26. The owners made a donation to the funds of the Institution, and the resciied men made a gift to the life-boat crew.—• Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to the helpers on shore, £18 10s..