Southwold, Suffolk.—At 12.32 P.M.

on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor and sailing yacht, to the southward of Southwold, was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Mary Scott was launched at 1.5 P.M., and found the yacht Vera, of Burnham-on-Crouch. She had a crew of two and was making for Harwich and Pin Mill, but had found the wind and sea too strong to make headway.

Her crew were very exhausted. The life-boat took them on board, put a crew aboard the Vera and towed her into Southwold Harbour, arriving at 1.35 P.M".—Rewards, £8 8s..