JULY 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The life-boat crew had assembled to take the life-boat to Dartmouth for the life-boat flag day there, when, at 12.56 in the afternoon, Brixham coastguard reported a small boat in Babbacombe Bay in need of help, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched.

A fresh west-by-south wind was blowing, with a short, choppy sea. The life-boat found four rowing boats with eight people in them, from two to three miles off shore, in danger of drifting out to sea. They were helpless in the steep seas, and the rowers were completely exhausted. The life-boat went alongside each boat in turn, took the people on board and took the boat in tow.

All the boats had shipped water, and all the people were suffering from shock and exposure.

Rum was served out to them, and the life-boat took them and the boats to Babbacombe.

She returned to her station at 3.15.

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