Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she was dragging her anchor. At 8.50 the life-boat S.G.E.

was launched in a rough sea with a moderate west-south-west gale blowing.

She found the auxiliary ketch Fortis, of Portsmouth, off Beaulieu, with her engine broken down, dragging towards Stone Point. Her crew of five could not weigh the anchor. A life- boatman therefore boarded her, and between them they got the anchor up.

The life-boat then towed her to Yar- mouth, arriving at 12.10 the next morning.—Property Salvage Case..