APRIL 29TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 12.25 in the afternoon the coastguard at Hope Cove reported that eight men in a 16-feet boat had stranded on Book Rock near Thurlestone. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the men, who were employed on the wreck of the Louis Shied which had stranded in December, 1939, could not reach shore under oars. The rock is about a mile from the shore, and is awash at half-tide. It was low water. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched at 12.45. She reached the rock at 1.45, rescued the men and, with their boat in tow, took them to Hope Cove. She returned to her station at 4.20 in the afternoon.

An increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale was given to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew, £5 ; additional rewards to crew, £2 5s. ; total rewards, £7 5s..