On the night of the 17th September a very strong gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very rough sea, rain squalls and a very high tide, and between midnight and eight o'clock the next morning there were three launches ; one by the board- ing boat and two by the motor life- boat. The first call came just after midnight, when it was reported that an upturned dinghy, with a man clinging to it, was drifting up the harbour. The life-boat's boarding boat, with a crew of five, put out at 12.30 A.M. Taxi-cab drivers helped in the search by driving their taxis to the quayside so that their headlights would shine on the water, but no trace of the dinghy could be found and the boarding boat returned some time after 1 A.M. At daybreak the body of a man who had been trying to return to the yacht Estrellita, which was at anchor in the harbour, was washed ashore..