Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of stone and carry- ing a crew of eight, had sent a wireless distress message stating that she had sprung a leak and had developed a heavy list five miles off St. Govan's Head. At 7.53 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on service for the first time. The sea was rough, there was a south-south-west gale, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the Cornel at 11.18, by which time she was ten miles from St.

Goran's light. The motor vessel Anteriority was standing by her. but the life-boat remained with her and escorted her across the Bristol Channel.

At 3.10 the Anteriority went on her way, and the life-boat escorted the Cornel as far as Minehead. At 6.5 the Tenby honorary secretary rang up the Minehead life-boat station to say that the Tenby life-boat would stay at. Minehead for the night and asked if the Minehead life-boat would escort the Cornel from there.

At 8.15 the Tenby life-boat and theCornel reached a position about four miles from Minehead, and fifteen minutes later the life-boat B.H.M.H.

was launched. The weather had moderated considerably. The Cornel signalled later that she did not need help any longer, and she made for Bristol. The Minehead life-boat met the Tenby life-boat, and they both reached Minehead about 9.35. The Tenby life-boat remained there for the night and was taken back to her station the next morning.—Tenby: rewards to the crew, £56 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, and expenses at Minehead, etc., £24 5s. 6d. Mine- head: rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £8 17s..