Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.

was launched in a fresh west-south- west breeze, with a rough sea. She found the sailing yacht Calypso, of Burnham, with the owner and his wife on board, anchored east of Hastings pier, with a broken main mast. The life-boat landed the two people and got back to her station at 11.31. At 5.15 next morning the owner said he could get no one to tow his yacht to safety; she was dragging her anchor and in danger of being wrecked. So at his request the life-boat towed the yacht to Dover, and returned once more to her station by 9.44 that night.

—Rewards, 1st service, £26 6s. 6d.; 2nd service, Property Salvage Case..