Weymouth, Dorset.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned a wireless message from a steamer that the motor yacht Coila, of Plymouth, on passage to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was flying distress signals nineteen miles south of Portland Bill, and needed fuel. At 1.45 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched, in a slight swell with a' light south-easterly breeze blowing, and found the Coila with the owner and his wife on board. She towed her to Weymouth and reached her station again at 8.30 that night. The owner thanked the life-boatmen.— Rewards, £12 15s. 6d..