Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 7.20 in the morning of the 21st of June, 1952, the Kilkeel coastguard reported that a small vessel, one mile off St. John's Point Lighthouse, was flying the dis- tress signal, an ensign upside down, and had also signalled for a doctor.

The life-boat William and Laura was launched at 7.35, with a doctor on board, in a moderate sea with a fresh north-westerly wind blowing. In the meantime a coastguardsman from Killough had gone out in a shore boat.

The vessel signalling was the 12-ton motor yacht St. Ambrose, of London, with her owner and another man on board. The owner was severely in- jured. He had been whirled round and crushed when his coat caught in one of the propeller shafts. The other man and the coastguardsman took the St. Ambrose, with the injured man on board, into Ardglass, followed by the life-boat, and the injured man was taken to hospital. The life-boat reached Newcastle again at 12.50 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £20 15*..