Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze was blowing andthe sea was moderate, but there was a thick mist. After a search the life- boat found the yacht Arawatta, of Maldon, just before two o'clock, in the morning. She had a crew of one man and two women. They had lost their way in the darkness, and the man's shoulder had been badly hurt by the sail. The life-boat took them on board, wirelessed to Walton for a doctor and an ambulance to meet her and arrived at half past two. The man was taken straight to hospital. The life-boat then put out again and towed the yacht to Walton Backwaters, returning to her station at 6.30 in the morning.— Rewards, £19..