JULY 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 2.40 in the morning the Stepper Point coastguard reported that an SOS was being flashed six miles N.N.E. of Stepper Point.

As it was known that convoys were passing and that they were being attacked, the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary left at 3.26 A.M. There was a light breeze and a slight swell. The life-boat found a ship three miles north of Stepper at 3.50 A.M., but she did not need help, and said that it might have been another ship which had already gone into the harbour. The life-boat returned to harbour and found that this ship, the Norwal, had six survivors aboard, from the Norwegian steamer Svint, of Oslo, which had been attacked. Other survivors were believed to be in two boats some ten miles off. The life-boat put out again, and at 5.40 A.M. picked up ten men from the ship’s boat. One of them was the captain, who wished to go back to the Svint, but when the life-boat reached her at 5.55 A.M., she was sinking.

The mate was lying dead on deck, and the life-boat took the body on board. She arrived back at Padstow at 8.15 A.M. A patrol boat had picked up four more men of the Svint, and this accounted for the whole crew of twenty-one. - Rewards, £7 19s.