Douglas, Isle of Man.—About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the harbour master received a message from the S.S.

Snaefell, of Douglas, that she was standing by the Bermuda sloop-rigged yacht Astral, of Abersoch, about eight and a half miles south-east of Douglas Head. At 2.20 the life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a very rough sea with a moderate northerly gale blowing. She found that the Astral had been dismasted, and that the Snaefell had taken off her crew of three.

The yacht had been abandoned by the Snaefell, but the life-boat towed her to Douglas. The life-boat reached her station again at 6.20.—Property Sal- vage Case..