Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of Greenock, was standing by- A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea.

The new motor life-boat Kate Greatorex was launched at 7 P.M. with the secondcoxswain in command. She found the motor yacht Loch Maree, but the Viking had sunk and the six people who had been on board her had been taken off by the Lock Maree. The Loch Maree herself now needed help as her engines had become overheated and the owner had been overcome by the fumes. Two life-boatmen boarded the Loch Maree, and the life-boat towed her to Minehead,landing her crew of two and the six people from the Viking, at 9.30 P.M.— Rewards, £13 8s..