Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.

on the 17th July, 1938, the St.

Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.

of the Head was making signals of distress. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.11 P.M., and found the converted ship's life-boat Andy, with two men on board, three miles east of St. Albans Head. She was on passage from Portsmouth to Torquay, but her engine had broken down, her anchor failed to hold, and she was in danger of drifting ashore. The life-boat towed her into Swanage Bay, and returned to her station at 4.35 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..