FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.

At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea and rain. The motor life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched at 4.15 and three-quarters of an hour later found the S.S. James Otis, of San Francisco, ashore on the rocks. She was a vessel of about 7,000 tons, with a crew of seventy-six, and was bound, light, from Antwerp to Plymouth. At the request of her captain the life-boat stood by until high water. With the help of tugs from Plymouth the James Otis was refloated at 1.25 in the afternoon. The life-boat reached her station again at 3.30. - Rewards, £20 13s. 6d..