St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 1.50 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of March, 1951, Sark sent a message that the motor boat Capwood, of Guernsey, had left Guernsey for Sark at 11.15 that morning with sixteen people, but had not arrived. At 2.15 the life-boat Queen Victoria left her moorings in a rough sea with a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing. At sea, she heard from Herm Island that the Capwood had engine trouble, and anchoring south-west of the island, had landed her passengers at Herm. However as the weather was getting worse two life- boatmen boarded her and took her into Henn harbour. There her passengersre-boarded her and she put to sea again.

But before long her engine broke down once more, and she hit some rocks.

A shore-boat therefore helped her back to Herm and transferred the passengers to the life-boat, which landed them at St. Peter Port harbour. The Queen Victoria reached her station again at 5.20 that evening.—Rewards, £11 3s..