Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.

Then the steamer wirelessed that she could not lower her boats, as the sea was very rough, with a moderate west-north-west gale blowing, and the life-boat Elizabeth Elson was launched at 7.45. She found the motor launch Solent Swan twenty-five miles south- west of St. Ann's Head. She had been towing the yacht Oriana, from Fal- mouth to Cork, but in the gale had been compelled to cut her adrift after taking off her crew of two. The life- boat escorted the launch to Milford Haven and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.30 that evening.

The yacht sank.—Rewards, £32 16*..