Torbay, Devon. At 7.30 on the evening of the 14th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a French trawler was leaking and needed help thirty miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Princess Alexan- dra of Kent was about to leave her moorings when the coastguard in- formed the coxswain that as the casualty was between Weymouth and Brixham the Weymouth life-boat had been requested to launch. After con- sultation the Torbay life-boat put out at 8.10 in a rough sea. A strong east-south-easterly wind was blowing and the tide was flooding. The weather was misty and there was squally rain.

The life-boat found the trawler Jean Charles Francoise twelve miles from Brkham, but she was under control.

The life-boat escorted her to harbour, arriving at eleven o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..