Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.

They had been accompanied by two men in another yacht, and both yachts ought to have reached Port St. Mary four hours earlier. At 1.15 the life- boat Civil Service No. 5 put out. The sea was calm and there was a light breeze, but the weather was deteriorat- ing. The life-boat found the yachts Maid Margaret and Maid Mary about four miles west of Langness.: She towed them to Port St. Mary and reached her station again at 2.30— Rewards, £6 2s. Qd..