Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 5th August St. Alban's Head coastguard reported that a vessel one and a half miles S.W. of the Head was making signals of distress. A moderate W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.12 A.M., and found the coaster Record, of Portsmouth, bound light from Portsmouth for Weymouth, in distress, owing to the breakdown of her engine. She towed her into Swanage bay, and returned to her station at 8.15 A.M. The owners made a donation of £20 to the Institution.

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