Swanage, Dorset.—At about 9.50 P.M.

on the 2nd August the coastguard saw flares half a mile east of Peveril Point.

A moderate S. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was launched at 10.14 P.M. and found the sloop Bonnie Betsy, of Weymouth, with two men on board, at anchor in a dangerous position. Her cable had parted once • and, not trusting it to hold, the men had burned flares for help. The lifeboat towed her to a safe anchorage, and returned to her station at 11.10 P.M.—Rewards, £11 4s..