Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six and seven miles off Lilstock. At 8.15 the life- boat B.H.M.H. was launched. It was her first service. The sea was calm and a light westerly breeze blowing-. The life-boat made for the position given, helped by coast watchers, and in the early morning of the 24th she found the dinghy two hundred yards south of Gore Buoy in Bridgwater Bay. She was anchored and the boy asleep. The life-boatmen rescued him, but the dinghy fouled the side of the life-boat and sank.

The life-boat took the boy to Mine- head, arriving at eight o'clock.— Rewards, £28 Is. 6rf..