JANUARY 14TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.

At 6.55 A.M. a message was received from the Hope Cove coastguard that a vessel half a mile S.S.W. of Hamstone Rock required help. A light easterly breeze was blowingand the sea was smooth. At 7.30 A.M. the motor life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched and found the Italian tramp steamer Pozzouli, of Naples, with a crew of forty-five. She was at anchor two and a half miles S.S.W. of Bolt Head, badly damaged. In the darkness and fog she had struck the Mewstone Rock below Bolt Head, but had floated clear on the rising tide. The second coxswain of the life-boat went on board, and, with the life-boat escorting, piloted the Pozzouli into Plymouth. As most of the lifeboat crew had gone on service without having had any food, they went ashore for a meal.

The life-boat returned to her station at 5.30 P.M. - Property salvage case..