Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The motor lifeboat Agnes Cross left harbour at 2 P.M.

on the 30th May, 1938, for exercise, going in the direction of the East Newcombe Buoy. A whole W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. A trawler was seen three miles S.S.E.

from the buoy, with a smaller boat astern. The life-boat altered her course, and on closing the trawler, found that she had in tow the halfdecked yacht Merry Thought, of Newhaven, bound for pleasure from Holland to Harwich. Her sails were torn and she was shipping water. Her crew of two were in the cockpit working the pump. The life-boat escorted the two vessels across the Newcombe Sands and Inner Shoal into the harbour, arriving at 4 P.M.—Rewards, £5 15s..