Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten minutes later the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a slight sea, with a light north-westerly wind blowing. The life-boat found the yacht Thurne, of Seaview. She had been dismasted, and the only man on board asked for a tow. The yacht was taken to Seaview by the life-boat, which reached her station at 5.40.— Rewards, £6..