On the night of the 14th July the coastguard re- ported flares about three miles N.N.W.

of the look-out. The life-boat's officers were at sea, but a crew was collected and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 11.5 P.M. Mr. T.W. Gomm, the honorary secretary, accompanied her. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat saw a red flare, and found the motor yacht Falcon, with five persons on board. She was bound from Lon- don to Spithead, but her engine had failed, and she had drifted to within fifty yards of the rocks when the life- boat arrived. Two life-boatmen were put on board the Falcon, and the life- boat towed her into harbour. The life-boat, but for whose help the Falcon would have become a wreck, returned to her station at 11.40 P.M. The owner made a donation.—Property Salvage Case..