Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.

Twenty minutes later the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out in a strong easterly wind with a rough sea, and found the yacht a mile south- west of Portland Bill. She was the Puffin III, with two on board. The life-boat towed her into Weymouth harbour, and reached her station again at 4.15. The owners expressed their thanks.—Property salvage case..