DECEMBER 8TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL,.

At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress off The Manacles. A strong north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched at 11.30 and found the S.S. Irma, of Sweden, bound for Cardiff, half a mile north-east of The Manacles. She was drifting, towards the rocks. The master asked the life-boat to stand by until a tug came out and the life-boat wirelessed for one.

After she had attended to a vessel in distress in the harbour, the tug Zwarte Zee came out and took the Irma in tow. The life-boat stood by until the Irma was moored in the harbour and arrived back at her station at 5.45 that afternoon. - Rewards, £10 8s. 6d..