Plymouth, Devon.—At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1957, a message was received that a vessel had broken down a mile and a half south of the breakwater. At 3.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Romse put out. There was a strong south-south-westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life- boat came up with the motor vessel C.

Sadikoglu, of Turkey, drifting towards Penlee Point. Shortly afterwards two tugs arrived, but the sea was too rough to allow a pilot to go aboard the vessel, and the life-boat stood by under very severe conditions for seven hours until, after repeated efforts, the tugs managed to tow the C. Sadikogluinto Plymouth Sound. The life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 11.30.—Rewards to the crew, £20 5s..