Early on the morning of the 17th July a tele- phone message was received from the Needles Signal Station that a small yacht, anchored W. of Shingle Bank Buoy, was burning flares and making S.O.S. signals on a lamp. A fresh E, breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and rain showers. The Motor Life-boat B.A.S.P. was launched at.

6.38 A.M., and found the 10-ton yacht Daedalus, of Cowes, with one man aboard, bumping heavily on the Shingle Bank. The man was taken into the Life-boat and the Daedalus was towed safely into Yarmouth, which was reached at 8.30 A.M.—Property Salvage Case..