Weymouth, Dorset. — At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1952, news was sent by the Portland coastguard through the Wyke Regis coastguard that a yacht was burning red flares about five miles south-south- west of Portland Bill. A fresh north- easterly wind was blowing with a choppy sea when, at 4.15, the life-boatWilliam and Clara Ryland left her moorings. She found the seventeen- feet yacht Joanna with a party of three aboard, and with her main halliard jammed. The life-boat towed her to Weymouth and reached her station again at 7.30 that evening. The owner thanked the life-boatmen.—Rewards, £7 7s..