SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock the No. 1 motor life-boat Elsie, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, and on her way she saw a rocket, and then, guided by signals from a morse lamp, she found the converted fishing boat Diana III, of Appledore, with a man, his wife, and three children on board. She was reefed down and had a sea-anchor out. It was then 11.15. The lifeboat went alongside and took off the three children, but the man and woman remained on board, and the lifeboat towed the Diana III to Padstow. She returned to her station at 2.38 next morning.

The owner made gifts to the Institution and to the life-boat crew. - Rewards, £5 13s. 6d..