Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.45 on the night of the 15th of May, 1958, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Musketier of Groningen was in difficulty five miles north of Trevose Head, as her cargo of coal had shifted.

At 12.30 the no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick put out from Hawkers Cove in a heavy swell. A whole gale was blowing from the north-west, and the tide was flooding. With the help of an aircraft the life-boat found the Musketier thirteen and a half miles north-north-west of Trevose Head.

She stood by her for fourteen hours until the Musketier''s master reported that the cargo had been secured. The Musketier then proceeded to Ilfracombe, and the life-boat reached her moorings at 4.50.

The owner of the Musketier expressed his thanks. Rewards to the crew, £21. 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8. 4s..