Torbay, South Devon.—At 4.17 or* the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel C.W.S. Progress had reported that she had picked up a man in an exhausted state from a dinghy which had been drifting out to sea. The motor vessel had asked if" the life-boat could land the man. The life-boat George Shee was launched at 4.25. There was a moderate sea, with a strong south-westerly breeze blowing and an ebbing tide. The life-boat came up with C.W.S. Progress about two miles from Brixham Harbour, took the man ashore and handed him over to the ambulance men. She arrived back at her station at 5.20.

The man made a gift to the crew.—• Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4*..