Ilfracombe, North Devon.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1956, Lloyds agent at Lynmouth reported to the coxswain that the small motor boat Jane, of Ilfracombe, was drifting with the tide off Lynmouth. At 6.50 the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a calm sea. There was a slight south-westerly breeze, and it was two hours before low water.

The life-boat found the Jane, with a crew of two, three miles east of Fore- land with her engine broken down.

She towed her to Ilfracombe harbour, arriving at 10.55.—Rewards to the crew, £9 2s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £13 11s..