MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 5.10 A.M. A gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the motor vessel Houtman, formerly of Rotterdam, with a crew of eight. She had dragged her anchors and gone ashore broadside on.

The lifeboat fired a line to her and, helped by the wind veering W.N.W., she was able to get the vessel off the rocks and to a safe anchorage. One member of the vessel’s crew had his hand crushed and the life-boat brought him ashore for treatment when she returned to her station at 8.10 A.M. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d.