Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1948, the police reported that at seven the pre- vious evening a man eighty years old had put oiit alone in the motor boat Mallard to fish, and had not been heard of since. The life-beat crew stood ready.

At 11.25 a message came from the Shambles Lightship that a motor boat was two miles south of it, and five minutes later the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland left in a light north-easterly wind with a slight sea. About 1.30 in the afternoon she found the boat with her engine broken down. The old man was tired and hungry but otherwise all right. She rescued him, took the boat in tow and arrived back at her station at 2.50 that afternoon.—Rewards, £8 Is..