JANUARY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 1.50 P.M. a message was received from the Stepper Point coastguard that a large R.A.F. launch, which had arrived under Pentire Head, needed help. A fresh N.N.E. breeze was blowing with a rough sea.

It was very cold. At 2.40 P.M. the No. 1motor life-boat Princess Mary was launched.

The master of the launch asked to be taken in to harbour. He had a very rough passage from Penzance, the launch had been slightly damaged, and one of the crew was suffering from concussion, having been struck on the head by a falling hatch cover. The life-boat coxswain boarded the launch and berthed her in the cove to wait for high water. Then escorted by the lifebour.

The life-boat then returned to her boat, he took her into Padstow Inner Harstation at 4 P.M. - Rewards, £4 3s.