Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.34 P.M. The sea was rough, with a strong W.S.W. breeze blowing. The life-boat found the sailing dinghy Thais empty, and took her to Swanage.

Her crew of two had been picked up before the life-boat arrived. The lifeboat reached Swanage again at eleven o'clock.

Information of the launching of the Swanage life-boat was sent to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, but was misunderstood, and the motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 7.15 P.M. Her services were not needed and she returned • at 8.35 P.M.—Rewards: Swanage, £8 14s.; Yarmouth, £7 Ws..