APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.

An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea.

The life-boat found the boat about three hundred yards from the shore and took her in tow. As she passed Penzer Point the coastguard signalled to her that another boat was in difficulties off Treen. After towing the first boat to safety, the life-boat returned to the help of the second boat, but on the way saw a third boat in a very dangerous position near the Runnel Stone Rocks. She went to her at once, found that her engine had broken down, and took her in tow. She then picked up the second boat and towed them both into Newlyn Harbour, where she arrived at 1 P.M. The three rescues had taken over six hours. The fishing boats, which all belonged to Newlyn, were the Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine, and they were manned by French refugees, twelve in number. An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was granted to each member of the crew and to each helper.

- Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £8 1s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew and helpers, £4 7s. ; total rewards, £12 8s. 6d..