Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that she had the fire under control; but at 8.10 that night the coastguard telephoned that the Allurity had asked for the life-boat. Accord- ingly at 8.25, the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a swell and a moderate south-westerly breeze. She came up with the tanker four miles east of Nab Tower. A member of the crew had been badly burned, so the life-boat wirelessed for an ambulance to meet her at Ryde, landed the patient and arrived back at her station at 2.0 the next morning.—Rewards, £17 5s..