Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, information was received from the Needles coastguard that a yacht was aground on the north-west part of Shingles Bank. The life-boat S. G. E.

was launched at 7.50 in a rough sea, with a fresh west-north-west wind blowing, and found the 56-tons auxili- ary ketch Harebell, of London, with a party of nine people on board, includ- ing two babies. A six-month-old baby, as well as a two-year-old child and its mother, were taken aboard the life-boat, which got the yacht clear of Shingles Bank and towed her to Yarmouth, arriving at 10.15. — Re- wards, £6 13s..