JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth.

The motor life-boat The Newbons put out at 3.30 and at 4.40 found that a Liberty ship, the American motor vessel George Hawley, had been torpedoed. All her crew except five men had already been taken off or got away.

As everything was covered with oil the five men got into their own boat and the lifeboat towed them to a tug, which now had a rope attached to the George Hawley. She got back to her station at 7.43 that evening.

News of the George Hawley was given by the coastguard to the Penlee Station at 3.12 and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 3.30. She arrived to find the George Hawley abandoned and H.M. ships standing by, so she returned, putting into Newlyn at 7.15. It was learnt later that only two lives had been lost and that the George Hawley had been towed to Falmouth. - Rewards : Sennen Cove, £24 1s. ; Penlee, £20 6s..