AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of enemy action, several miles off Hartland Point. The weather was fine, with a light wind and a calm sea. The Clovelly motor life-boat City of Nottingham put out at 7.18, but learnt from a naval vessel that all the men had been picked up, and returned to her station, arriving just after midnight. The Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary put out at 7.30 and searched, until she was recalled by wireless.

She arrived back at two o’clock next morning.

While the Clovelly and Padstow life-boats were out the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore asked for the Appledore motor lifeboat Violet Armstrong to go out to transfer survivors of the two sunken ships from a naval vessel to other vessels. She left at 9.14, went as far as the Fairway Buoy and transferred twenty-one men to flat-bottomed ships, which could accommodate stretcher cases.

She reached her station again at 11.30. No information was received of the identity of the ships sunk or the number of survivors.- Rewards : Appledore £11 4s. 6d. ; Clovelly, £20 19s. ; Padstow, £5 9s..