On the closing of the Lyme Regis Life-boat Station the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy was to be returned to London, by rail from Weymouth. She left Lyme Regis for Weymouth at 8 P.M. on the 10th November. At daybreak on the llth she was seen making for Portland Bill from West Bay. A strong E. breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and with the turn of the tide she was unable to get round the Bill. The Motor Life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at 2 P.M., took the Thomas Masterman Hardy in tow and brought her safely into Weymouth, which was reached at 4.10 P.M.—Rewards, £4 6s..