Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.5 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through the police, that Topmast No. S, a pontoon pile driver of Southampton, which was at work in connexion with a sewer to the west of Lymington Pier, had broken adrift and was burning flares for help. A strong squally W.S.W. gale was blowing, with very rough seas and rain. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at 5.20 P.M. She found the pontoon partly submerged by the heavy seas breaking on board. Anchor was dropped to windward and the life-boat veered down. She rescued the seven men on board, landed them at Lymington, and returned to her station at 8.5 P.M.

This was a very good service and a letter of thanks was sent to the coxswain and crew. A subscriber to the Institution made it a special donation in recognition of this service.—Rewards, £11 14s..