Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.29 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht was burning a red flare three miles to the east-south-east, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 5.40 in a moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea.

She found the sailing yacht Emery, of Brightlingsea, with a crew of three.

The yacht had lost her dinghy in a squall, and in the rising sea and wind she had become unmanageable. The life-boat towed her to Lowestoft and arrived back at her station at 12.37 the next morning.—Rewards, £49 Is. 6d..