Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the direc- tion of Picklecombe and stated that a naval M.F.V. had put out. At 1.55 the Queen's harbour-master asked for the life-boat, and at 2.15 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out. The sea was rough, a gale was •blowing from the north-north-west, and the tide was flooding. The life- boat found the 30-feet motor boat Edna, of Plymouth, with five anglers on board, at anchor near a reef in Plymouth Sound, between Drake's Island and Mount Edgcumbe. The Edna's propeller shaft had broken, and she was in shallow, rock-infested •water. The life-boat crew gave the men hot soup and towed their boat to Plymouth, arriving at 8.50.—The ang- lers' club made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards to the crew, £10..