Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.20 P.M.

* on the 15th September, 1939, the coastguards, telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland, was launched at 7.40 P.M., and found the s.s. Alex Van Opstal. of Antwerp, which had been sunk. Her crew had got away in the ship's boats, and the life-boat found them in tow of a Greek steamer. She stood by the steamer until she reached a safe anchorage in Weymouth Bay and then returned to her station arriving 11.45 P.M.—Rewards, £8 15s..