Padstow, Cornwall.—At 5.5 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1957, the Trevose Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch vessel Tubo was in difficulties twenty miles west of Lundy and that her cargo of grain was shifting. The no. 1 life- boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick put out from the pool in a rough sea. A whole west-north-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat made for the position in heavy rain and hail squalls, found the Tubo, and stood by her. When the shelter of Lundy was reached the Tubo was able to continue her passage to Swansea without escort. The life- boat reached her station at 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of December.

Rewards to the crew, £36 15s. ; re- ward to the helper on shore, 12s..