DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.

Information was received from the coastguard at 12.10 in the morning that a ship in the harbour was showing signals of distress and at 12.25 the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched. A southerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The life-boat found that the S.S. Dunkery Beacon, of London, had dragged her anchors. She had a crew of forty-five and had come, in ballast, from Cardiff to Falmouth for repairs. The captain said he wanted a pilot. This message the life-boat took to the pilot boat and then returned to stand by the steamer. Later she was told that she was no longer needed, and returned to her station at two o’clock.- Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..