On the 7th April four men and a woman put out for a trial run in a motor boat, the Seafarer. When about a mile offshore, in Weymouth bay, they ran out of petrol and their boat began to drift out to sea. One of the men swam ashore and gave the alarm, and, in the absence of any other suitable boat, the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 5.32 P.M. A fresh north-west breeze was blowing, the weather was thick, and it was raining.

The life-boat found the Seafarer about a mile and a half east of Weymouth pierhead and towed her back to har- bour. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.15 P.M. A letter of thanks was received from the owner.—Rewards, £4 75. 6d..