Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 19th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Austerity hadwirelessed that she had the ten-ton sloop yacht Symphony II, with a crew of six, in tow about eight miles south of the Needles. She had asked if the life-boat would take over the tow.

At 7.45 the life-boat S.G.E. put out in a choppy sea with a fresh south- south-west breeze blowing. She came up with the vessel three and a half miles south of Freshwater Bay. The Symphony II had lost her bowsprit and her foresail had carried away.

The life-boat towed her to Yarmouth, arriving- at 10.45.-—Property Salvage Case..