At 6.20 A.M.

on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.

She had seven persons on Board. The motor life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was launched at 6.40 A.M. in a moderate to strong S.W. breeze, with a rough sea.

The weather was thick. As the life- boat left the slipway a strong ebb tide caught her and threw her against the harbour perch. She was holed below the water-line, but although her cox- swain did not know the extent of the damage, he decided to go to the help of the yacht. Meanwhile the yacht Zulu, owned and sailed by Alderman C. E.

Tatham, Mayor of Blackpool, and honorary secretary of the Institution's life-boat station there, had gone to the aid of the Wallaroo. He got a line on board and towed her towards Piel harbour. Despite the hole in her side the life-boat escorted the yachts into Piel. Heavy seas were shipped on her return, but the life-boat got safely back to her station at 10.40 A.M. The Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club, to whom the yachts belonged, sent a donation to the Fleetwood Branch.— Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..