Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.

The weather was fine and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 9.27 P.M., and found the speed-boat with one man on board. She took her in tow and arrived back at Swanage at 9.51 P.M.— Rewards, £11 4s..