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Tregenna Castle

St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 15th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a skiff with one man aboard was adrift in the bay with no oars. The life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 10.10 in a smooth sea and a flooding tide. When the life-boat came up with the skiff Tregenna Castle,she had been taken in tow by the pilot boat Ada. The man on board the Tregenna Castle was transferred to the life-boat, which then returned to her station, arriving at 10.50.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s..