Torbay, Devon. At 4.48 on the after- noon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a boat was in difficulties off Elbury beach at Torbay.

At 5.5 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings in a moderate swell. A gentle east-south-easterly wind was blowing, and it was two and a half hours before high water. The life- boat found the motor boat close to the rocks with one man aboard. A line was fired to the boat, which was then towed into Brixham harbour with her engine disabled. The life-boat reached her station at 5.55. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..