Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.9 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Cliff End coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress at the mouth of Lymington River. She was the auxiliary cutter yacht Monie, of Southampton, bound with a crew of two from Totland Bay for Lymington.

Her engine had broken down, and her anchors were dragging. A whole S.W.

gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at 9.24 P.M., anchored near the Monie about 10 P.M. and fired a line over her. The squalls were so terrific that the life-boat's anchor dragged, but eventually the life-boat fot alongside and took off the crew, everal times she grounded on shoals, but she got clear at about 1 A.M. and forty minutes later landed the men.

So rough was the weather that the life-boat could not be replaced on her moorings until 5 A.M. The rescued men sent letters of thanks and a gift for the life-boat crew. — Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..