MARCH 22ND. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.

At 3.40 in the afternoon an explosion was heard and it was seen that a vessel had been torpedoed about seven miles northwest of the life-boat station. A moderate east-south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was calm. At 3.50 the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched and on reaching the scene was signalled by an escort vessel to come alongside her. She had on board 49 of the crew of the torpedoed ship, the S.S. Empire Kingsley, of Greenock. The lifeboat took them on board. Four were injured men on stretchers. She landed them at Sennen and returned to her station at six o’clock. - Rewards, £17 18s.