FEBRUARY 17TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

Shortly before noon the coastguard at Stepper Point reported, by telephone, distress signals from a trawler four miles north-west-by-north of Trevose Head. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary put out at 12.30 and found the Belgian trawler Atlantic, of Ostend, with her engine broken down. She was laden with fish and had a crew of six. At the request of her master the life-boat took her in tow, and at 4.30 the two boats arrived under Pentire Head to await the tide. Permission was sent by the naval authorities to enter harbour at ten o’clock, and the life-boat got under way again about nine o’clock. At eleven o’clock she brought the Atlantic safely into harbour. - Property salvage case..