Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched. A freshening south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found the local yacht Glebe anchored about a mile off shore. She had had a man and a woman on board. They had landed in their dinghy to collect sea birds' eggs on the cliffs, but the dinghy had floated away on the rising tide, leaving them stranded. They were on a narrow strip of beach under sheer cliffs, rising several hundred feet; they could get away neither by land nor sea; the tide was coming in fast; the wind was freshening.

The dinghy was adrift in heavy breakers. The life-boat went as near to it as she could and with her line- throwing gun was able to get a line over it and haul it alongside. At con- siderable risk, for the dinghy was very small, three life-boatmen got into it and took it through the breakers.

There it was thrown up on the shore.

Again at great risk, the life-boatmen rowed it out through the surf with the rescued man and woman on board.

Several times it was nearly swamped, and always it was in danger of being flung on the rocks. The man and woman were much exhausted, wet • through and chilled, and the coxswain gave them rum. With the yacht and the dinghy in tow the life-boat made for her station, arriving at 8 o'clock. The Institution sent a letter of thanks to the fisherman who had brought the news.

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