On the evening of the 12th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Avonmouth that a large motor launch had been reported aground on the Welsh Hook, in a dangerous posi- tion. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and-heavy rain, when the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat Colonel Stock was launched at 6.45 P.M. She spoke the English and Welsh Grounds Lightship, which re- ported having seen nothing unusual, and then went along the edge of the sands and signalled Walton Bay Signal Station, which replied that the vessel had re- floated and had anchored abreast of the Station, about three miles distant. The Life-boat found the motor yacht Arran Cross, and at the request of her skipper escorted her into Portishead. The Life- boat arrived back at her Station at 5 A.M., having been on service over ten hours.—Eewards, £23 18s. 6d..