Penlee, Cornwall.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 9th of December, 1956, a message was received from a doctor that a vessel, which was making for Mounts Bay with an injured man on board, had asked for the life-boat to bring him ashore. It was agreed that the life-boat should meet the vessel, which was the M.V. Harborough, five miles south of Penzance. At noon the life-boat W. and S. was launched. There was a rough sea and a strong south-westerly gale.

The tide was ebbing. Because of the bad weather the Harborough was brought further into the bay than had originally been planned, and the injured man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Xewlyn. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5.30. The owners made a gift to the crew.—Rewards to the crew, £18; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 14s. Gd..