Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings at high water in a light north-easterly wind and a smooth sea.

The casualty was further to seaward than had been reported, and the life- boat found her nine miles east-south- east of Berry Head. Her crew of five had abandoned their vessel, which was the auxiliary schooner J.T. & S., and had taken to a small boat, from which they had been picked up by the tanker Esso Lambeth. They were later trans- ferred to the life-boat and landed at Brixham at one o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 10s..