DECEMBER 29TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 11.45 A.M. a telephone message was received from the naval authorities asking for the life-boat to stand by, as an R.A.F. rescue launch had gone to sea and found the weather too heavy to return. A gale was blowing from the N.N.W., with a rough sea. The No.1 motor life-boat Princess Mary was launched at 12.24 P.M.

and found the launch two miles west of Stepper Point. She stood by her and by wireless directed her safely into harbour, where the two boats arrived at 1.18 P.M. - Partly paid permanent crew. Rewards, £4 2s.