Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.41 on the 4th of April, 1953, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht was in distress one and a half miles south-east of Portland Bill and was burning flares. At 9.55 the life- boat Milburn, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings in a moderate sea, with a moderate south- westerly breeze blowing. She found the cutter-rigged yacht Lalla Rookh, with five persons on board, two miles south-east of Portland Bill. The yacht had shipped a lot of water and had been near the dangerous Portland Race, but had drifted clear. The life- boat escorted her to Weymouth har- bour and reached her station again at 11.30.—Rewards, £5 as..