Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.12 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a vessel was ashore in St. Loy Bay. At 6.34 the life-boat W and S was launched in a slight sea, with a gentle west-south-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat was within half a mile of the casualty, the French crabber Pluie de Rose, when the coxswain sighted a small boat with four survivors on board. They were trans- ferred to the life-boat and their boat was taken in tow. The coxswain learnt that they were survivors from the French crabber and that there were still two men on board her. The life-boat went alongside the crabber, but the two men had been taken off by the life-saving apparatus team by breeches buoy. The life-boat made for Newlyn to land the four men, arriving at 7.45. She was rehoused at nine o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 8s..