Torbay, Devon. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 13th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Anja of Foxhol was on fire five miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 4.35, half an hour before high water.

The weather was cloudy with moderate visibility and a gentle south-westerly wind. Off the entrance to the river Dart the coxswain received an amended posi- tion of the casualty, placing it eight and a half miles north-east of Start Point.

He immediately altered course, and on reaching the Anja found that the Dutch tanker Frans van Seumeren of Uithoorn had taken her in tow and was making for Dartmouth. The life-boat escorted the two vessels in case the crew of the Anja had to be taken off, but they reached Dartmouth safely..