On the evening of the 4th May the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties some distance S.E. of Shanklin pier. The life-boat did not go out, as a motor boat was standing by the yacht. Later the yacht sailed in the direction of Sandown Bay. Next morning the coastguard reported that the yacht was off Shanklin, making heavy weather, and the motor life-boat Langham was launched at 8.25 A.M. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the yacht—which was the Fidget, of Bos- ham, with one man on board—in the trough of the seas. With some diffi- culty a life-boatman was transferred to her, and the life-boat towed her into Whale Island, Portsmouth. The life- boat arrived back at her station at 12.30 P.M. The rescued man has become an annual subscriber to the Institution and the underwriters have given a donation.—Rewards, £6 10*. 6d..