Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between Turnberry and Brest Beacon.

Later it was stated that she had anchored. A local fishing boat put out to tow her in, but she could not get near her because of shallow water.

She therefore burnt red flares to signal that she was returning to Girvan. The lightkeeper saw the flares and told the coastguard, and at 10.15 the life-boat Frank and William Gates was launched.

The sea was calm, with a light north- erly breeze blowing, and she found the yacht Floran near Turnberry Light- house. The owner had swum ashore for help, leaving his wife, two children, his chauffeur and another person in the yacht, and the life-boat took them on board. As the chauffeur had injured a leg, the life-boat wirelessed for a doctor and ambulance to meet her at her station, which she reached again at midnight.—Rewards, £5 13,?..