St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of September, 1953, during thick fog, an airman reported that a sailingdinghy was missing, with the owner and another airman on board, and that when last seen the dinghy was one and a half miles from the harbour.

At 11.5 the life-boat Cunard was launched in a calm sea with a fresh northerly breeze blowing. She found the two men and their boat on Steval Rock, west of St. Mary's. The life- boat refloated the boat, rescued the men, and towed them to St. Mary's, reaching her station again at 12.30 early on the 9th.—Rewards, £6 17s..