Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 5.20 on the evening of the 21st of Octo- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to ask if the life-boat would take seven men off a drilling tower which had been «rected off Hinkley Point in Bridg- water Bay. The contractors' boat could not put out as the weather "was too rough. At six o'clock the life- boat Fifi and Charles was launched in a moderate sea, with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the tower, which was built of tubular scaffolding, standing in eleven feet of water. It was sixty feet high and had a platform on top. The coxswain took the life- boat alongside the tower in between the stays, and the seven men jumped one at a time into her. One large sea carried the life-boat against the tower, and before she came clear astern several seas broke over her, but all the men were taken off without injury and the life-boat escaped with only superficial damage. She reached her station at 10.40. Rewards to the crew, £14 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 7s. Expenses refunded to the Institution by the contractors..