Appledore, Devon. About seven o'clock on the evening of the 21st of June, 1958, a message was received from Ilfracombe radio station that the traw- ler Young John of St. Ives had engine trouble near the Fairway bell buoy in Barnstable Bay. At 7.15 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a heavy swell.

There was a fresh westerly wind with rain squalls and a flood tide. The life- boat found the trawler with a crew of three. She took her in tow and berthed her alongside Appledore quay at 9.40.

Rewards to the crew, £8. 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2. 8s..