FRENCH FISHING BOAT DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that distress signals were being made seventeen miles south- east of Weymouth, and that Niton Radio Station had reported a French fishing vessel broken down and asking to be towed to Weymouth. No tug was available so the motor life-boat William and Clara Byland was launched at 4.35. There was no wind and the sea was calm. She found the motor fishing vessel Elaine Therese, of Boulogne, with eight on board, about eleven miles from Weymouth. She was bound for Brixham, but her engine had broken down and she had drifted for two days while the crew attempted to repair it. The life-boat towed her to Weymouth, arriving at 9.30 in the morning.—Rewards, £10 17s..