IN DISTRESS ON A PLEASURE TRIP Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.25 in the morning of the 30th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a small boat flashing the SOS signal in Durlston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 2.50 in a light east-north-east breeze with a swell.

She found an ex-naval whaler, bound for Lulworth on a pleasure trip, with three on board. She had anchored but was dragging towards the shore. The life- boat towed her to an anchorage in Swanage Bay and arrived back at her station at 3.30.—Rewards, £9 12s..