Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About nine hi the night, on the 13th of August, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a resident had reported a yacht on the Pye Sands.

Later it was learned that the auxiliary yacht Norman was overdue with two women, two children, and a man on board. At 10.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D. left her moorings in a moder- ate sea with a moderate easterly breezeblowing; but she found no sign of the yacht. It had become submerged at high tide, and the five people had gone ashore in a dinghy. Th s dinghy had then floated away from the shore.

The life-boat found it in the Swash, towed it to Albion beach, and reached her station again at 1.15 the next morning.—Rewards, £11 12*..