Penlee, Cornwall.—At seven o'clock on the morning of the 14th of March, 1956, the Tol-Pedn-Penwith coast- guard rang up to say that a trawler had been wrecked at Wireless Point, Porthcurno. At 7.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched. The sea was rough, there was a fresh south-easterly wind, and it was one hour after high water. The life-boat made for the position and found the trawler Vert Prairial, of Dieppe, on her beam ends among rocks. There was no sign of life in her, but several bodies were seen floating in the surf. The life- boat picked up two of them, and the rest were washed ashore and recovered by coastguardsmen. A helicopter and other aircraft joined in a further search lasting an hour, but no survivors were seen, and the life-boat left for her station at 10.30, arriving at 11.15.

All the trawler's crew of seventeen lost their lives.—Rewards to the crew, £16 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 4s. 6rf..