Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.57 in the morning on the 4th of August, 1951, the Needles coastguard telephoned the life-boat authorities that the S.S.

Ringwood had reported people from a capsized boat hanging on to Sconce Point Buoy one mile west of Yarmouth.

At 4.10 the life-boat S.G.E. was launched in a smooth sea with a light south-westerly wind. A few minutes later the Ringivood was reported as anchored and launching a boat. The life-boat rescued two men from the buoy, took aboard two women from the Ringwood's boat, which had res- cued them from the buoy, and then returned, reaching her station at 5.10.

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