Clovelly, North Devon.—At 10.20 on the night of the llth of May, 1956, the Hartland Point coastguard rang up to sav that Mr. Gade, the resident agent on Lundy Island, was anxious that his son-in-law should be taken to the mainland as soon as possible, as his daughter was very ill in a hospital at Barnstaple. At "ll.20 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was launched, with the second coxswain in charge, in a moderate sea with a west-north- westerly wind blowing. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat brought the man and the wife's parents to Clovelly, arriving at 3.40.—Re- wards to the crew, £12 os.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £19 16s..