Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 28th of December, 1951, the master of the motor vessel Fran- cine, of Antwerp, who had come ashore to get stores, reported that the Francine was drifting ashore a hundred yards off Weymouth promenade, and at 5.40 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland, with Mr. Kenneth H. Mooring Aldridge, the honorary secretary, on board, left her moorings, taking the master of the Francine with her. A whole southerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the Francine off Preston Beach. She got under way without help, and the life-boat put her master on board.

She then escorted her to Portland Harbour, arriving back at her station at 7.15 that night.—Rewards, £7 8s..