FOUR RESCUED BY BREECHES BUOY Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.50 inthe afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1947, the Needles Naval Signal Station reported a motor launch, with the yacht Orion in tow, in need of help, and the motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at 2 o'clock in a fresh south- westerly gale with a rough sea running.

After she had left a message came to her station that there was no one on the yacht Orion but that a motor yacht was in distress off Lymington River, one mile east at Tanners Lake, and at 2.50 this information was passed to her by wireless. She altered course, and found the motor yacht Binge ashore with a crew of four. Heavy spray was breaking over her. A life-boatman threw the heaving cane with a line attached, into the yacht, the breeches buoy was rigged and the four men were hauled into the life-boat. The life- boat landed them at Yarmouth Quay at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.—Rewards, £10 19s..