CAUGHT IN A STRONG EBB Swanage, Dorset.—At 3.23 in the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.35 in a light easterly wind. She found the auxiliary sloop Mignonette, of Southampton, with a crew of four, in a very rough confused sea about two miles south-east of Pevril Point. While bound for Swanage she had been carried over Pevril Ledge by the strong ebb tide and was in consider- able danger. The life-boat towed her into Swanage Bay, arriving at 4.30.-— Rewards, £7 12s..