On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by a heavy sea. Then the yacht broached to, and was swept across the sands into shallow water. One of her crew clung to the mainmast and waved for help while the other two tried to bale her out. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross put out at 4.57 P.M., and found the yacht—the Magpie, of Burnham-on-Crouch, bound from Har- wich to Lowestoft—still afloat, but in broken water. The crew would have left her, but, in order to save the yacht as well as the crew, the life-boat formed a lee; a headsail was hoisted on the yacht, and the life-boat, keeping on the weather side, escorted her across the sands into the harbour. The life- boat returned to her station at 5.45 P.M.—Rewards, £16 7s. 6d..