ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1945, a man was cut off by the tide at Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. A marine told 73-year-old Mr.

C. Galliver, and the two men put out in a rowing boat. A fresh east breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. In the heavy swell and among dangerous rocks it was only with considerable difficulty that they rescued the man. - Rewards, £2, of which £1 was returned to the Institution as a donation.

PORTLAND, DORSET. On the morning of the 7th of January, 1946, the small Royal Army Service Corps motor boat Ena broke down while engaged on supply service. A light south-south-west wind was blowing and a slight swell running. The motor boat was seen by two fishermen, who put off in an open rowing boat. They reached the Ena, two miles north-north-west of Portland Bill.

They found her too big to tow, so one of the fishermen tied a waistcoat to his oar and waved it, and told the crew of the Ena to signal. The Ena had been under observation by the coastguard. He saw that she was in difficulty, and the Weymouth life-boat crew were assembled, but they did not launch as the naval authorities sent a tug, which was working off Portland Bill, to the rescue. With the help of the men in the rowing boat, who carried a rope from the tug to the Ena, the tug took the Ena in tow and brought her into Portland Harbour. - Rewards, £2.

PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL. About four in the morning of the 6th of February, 1946, the S.S. Sphene struck some rocks between Tintagel and Boscastle, and foundered forty minutes later. Her crew of twelve took to their boat. At two o’clock in the afternoon they were approaching Port Isaac and burned red flares. The westerly wind was light, but there was a heavy swell. They were warned to lie off and the Padstow No. 2 life-boat was launched, but Mr. Anthony Provis, owner of the motor boat Maple Leaf, with six other men, had already gone out to the rescue.

His engine broke down, but he re-started it and brought the twelve men into Port Isaac.

Rewards, £5 5s., 5s. for fuel used, and £2 10s.

for two oars broken. (See Padstow, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” p. 24)..