Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the rocks west of Combe Martin Bay, and at 5.32 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched, with the second coxswain in charge, in calm weather. She found the yacht Thyminia, of Barry, with a crew of three, off Hangman Point unable to make headway through lack of wind. The life-boat towed her to Ilfracombe and reached her station again at 7.30.—Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..