Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat had capsized off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a choppy sea. A fresh westerly wind was blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the sailing boat Taw and rescued her crew of two men and a boy. She then towed the yacht to Watermouth beach, where the yacht's crew were landed; and returned to her station, arriving at 7.20.

Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on the shore, £12 17s.