Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.

The sea was calm with a moderate south-easterly breeze blowing. The life-boat found the motor yacht Emmiman, of Leith, with four men, two women and a child on board. She had been bound for the Bass Rock from St. Monance, but her engines had broken down and she had drifted close inshore in Largo Bay. The crew repaired the engines and asked the life-boat to escort them to Leith.

Three life-boatmen boarded the yacht and took her to Leith, accompanied by the life-boat, which then returned to her station, arriving at 9.15.—Property Salvage Case..