OCTOBER 12TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.

At 6.10 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a small steamer was flashing an S.O.S., and the motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 6.37. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was moderate, but there was a heavy roll. One and a half miles W. by N. of Pradennack Head, the lifeboat found the ex-Belgian motor vessel Margurette Marie Louise, engaged on government work. Her engine had broken down.

The life-boat towed her to Newlyn, where she was bound, arriving at 11.10. The life-boat returned to her station next morning, arriving at 8.50 A.M. - Property salvage case..