Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of October, 1950, the Tara coastguard reported that a motor yacht trying to cross the Strang- ford Lough was making heavy weather.

At 5.3, as the weather was worsening, it was thought advisable to launch the life-boat; and at half past five the life- boat Herbert John put out in a heavy sea with a strong south-south-westerly gale. She found the yacht Embla, of Dublin, with the owner and his wife on board, two miles south of Strangford Bar. The owner acked to be escorted to safety; but progress was slow in the bad weather and after nearly three hours they had only covered two miles.

The yacht was now unmanageable and burned red flares; but it was impossible to put men aboard to help her crew.

She was therefore taken in tow to Ardglass Harbour and secured at 11.30.

The life-boat waited for the tide and then returned to her station, which she reached at 6.15 the following morning. The owner paid a tribute to the efficiency of the Life-boat Service, made a gift and became a subscriber to the Institution's funds.—Rewards, £41 14s..