Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland left her moorings in a very rough sea, with a south-easterly gale blowing, and found the cabin-cruiser Diana II with a crew of four. Her engines had broken down and she was on a lee shore near a reef of submerged rocks. The life- boatmen fired a line to her and made a tow rope fast. The life-boat then towed her to Castletown pier, reaching her station again at 6.45.—Property Salvage Case..