St. Ives, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 6th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man hadfallen overboard from the motor vessel Kindrance, eleven miles off St. Ives and that a helicopter was searching. At 9 .40 the life-boat Edgar, George, Or- lando and Eva Child was launched with a doctor on board. There were light airs, a calm sea and an ebb tide. The life-boat reached the motor vessel and found that the man had been picked up.

Artificial respiration had been applied, but when the doctor went on board the motor vessel he found that the man had died. The Kindrance was piloted to St.

Ives Bay, where the body was trans- ferred to the life-boat. As it was low water a local boat put out, took the body on board and landed it. The life- boat reached her station at 12.45.

Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £11..