Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. —• At 4.20 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1918, the police reported a sailing boat in difficulties in the bay. She had two boys on board. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The boat had been carried by wind and tide towards Birnbeck Island and the hono- rary secretary of the life-boat station and the coxswain hurried there. The boat came within hailing distance, but the boys were unable to carry out the instructions which the coxswain shouted to them, and their boat was swept under the pier. They succeeded in making fast to one of its supports, but they were in danger of being swept into the fishing stakes and the tumble of sea on the shingle bank some 300 yards away. No other boat was afloat, and at 5.15 the motor life- boat Fiji and Charles was launched.

A few minutes later the line which the boys had fastened to the pier had parted, but the life-boat reached her just in time to prevent her from being carried on to the bank of shingle. She took her in tow and beached her in the River Axe at seven that evening. She re- turned to her station next day, arriving there at 11 o'clock in the morning.— Rewards, £11 3s..