MAY 2ND. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At 7.15 A.M. the Croyde coastguard reported a steamer ashore to the east of Lynmouth. A light easterly wind was blowing, with a smooth sea, and the weather was hazy. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick Gainer was launched at 7.50 A.M. and pulled to Embelle Wood Bay. There, men sent by car from the life-boat station had found two steamers ashore, the S.S. Giannoulis Gounaris, of Piraeus, bound with coal to the Mediterranean, and the S.S. Lunineach, of Limerick, with coal for Rouen. Their captains said that they hoped to get them off on the afternoon tide. The life-boat stood by for a time while efforts were made without success to refloat the steamers, and returned to her station at 3.45 P . M . The Lunineach was towed off on the following day, but the other vessel had broken her back.

An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was granted to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £15 16s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £4 17s. 6d. ; total rewards, £20 14s..