Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been seen off the Mewstone. They were already over- due and it was thought that with the strong ebb tide they might be unable to come ashore. At 7.2 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched and began to search. There was a fresh north- easterly breeze blowing. A naval heli- copter and other boats also took part in the search, and about 8.50 the life- boat found the Zephyr between Wem- bury Point and Mewstone. The men, who were wet and cold, were making little progress against the wind and tide, and the life-boat rescued them.

The life-boatmen gave them hot drinks, towed the dinghy to Yealm, and landed the men there, arriving back at their station at 10.25.— Rewards, £6 ]8,y..