Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1957, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat was drifting about a mile and a half south of Black Head in St. Austell Bay. Eight minutes later the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out in a slight sea. There was a gentle west-south-westerly breeze blowing and the tide was just beginning to ebb. The life-boat found the motor boat off Mevagissey, with one man on board. Her engine had broken down and she was taken in tow to her port.

The life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 5.30.—Rewards to the crew, etc., £8 Ws. Qd..