Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was in danger of drifting on Shingles Bank. At 6.33 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings in a rough sea with a moderate south- westerly gale blowing and heavy rain.

She found the yacht Malabar 13, of New York, a quarter of. a mile east of the Shingles Bank. As she went alongside she was damaged by the broken mast; but she took the dis- abled yacht in tow and brought her, with her crew of ten, into Yarmouth Harbour. They arrived at 8.15. The life-boat crew received a gift in appre- ciation of their services.—Rewards, £5 13s..