AUGUST 11TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 7.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting about six miles N.W. by W. of Towan Head. A N.W. by W.

wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 8.40 P.M. and found a derelict ship’s boat belonging to the Janna, of Drammen,Drammen, Norway. All gear, except rowlocks, was missing, and there was no one on board.

The life-boat took the boat in tow and brought her into Newquay Harbour at 11 P.M. - Property salvage case..