Exmouth, Devon.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of July, 1953, the life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched to attend the life-boat flag day at Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth. At 12.5, when she was at Sidmouth, two twelve-feet racing dinghies capsized one mile to the southward during a thunderstorm.

The life-boatmen saw them and immediately went to their help. The sea was choppy, with a strong wind blowing. The life-boat rescued the crew of two of one of the dinghies, the Moonstone, and towed the dinghy to the beach. A fishing boat saved the other dinghy and her crew. The life- boat arrived back at Exmouth at five o'clock.—Rewards, £2..