St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.45 P.M. on the 29th July, 1938, the nightwatchman at St. Sampson's Harbour received a message, flashed in morse from the Great Western Railwaysteamer Sambur, that shouts for help had been heard from a boat near Corbette la Mare rocks. The weather was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 11.10 P.M., and found the sailing dinghy Taffy, belonging to Guernsey.

On board were three boys, who had lost their oars and tied the boat to a beacon post in a strong tideway. The boys would not slip their moorings, as directed by the coxswain, so the lifeboat had to be taken almost alongside in order that a life-boatman could jump aboard the Taffy. The moorings were then cut and the boys taken into the life-boat, which returned at 12.20 A.M.

with the dinghy in tow.

A fishing boat, manned by two men, had also put out from St. Sampson, at the request of the harbour-master, but its services were not needed.—Rewards: Life-boat, £9 Is.; shoreboat, £1 10s., and 2s. Qd. for fuel used..