FEBRUARY 2 8TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Cubenda, of London, with a crew of twelve, had struck a mine about two and a half miles east of Mumbles Head, and the motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was launched at 11.20 A.M. A very strong westerly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea.

The life-boat found that eleven of the Cubenda’s crew had been picked up by H.M.

minesweeper Perdant. The chief engineer had been killed, and his body was recovered by a patrol boat. At the request of the master of the minesweeper, the life-boat went alongside and took off the eleven men. Owing to the heavy seas it was not possible to land them at the slipway so they were taken to Swansea and put ashore at 1 P.M. The life-boat returned to her station an hour later. - Rewards, £6 15s. 6d.