Torbay, Devon.—At 2.42 early on the morning of the 6th of December, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help had been heard off Freshwater Quarry. At 3.10 the life- boat George Shee put to sea. There was a slight swell with a moderate easterly breeze blowing. A flashing light and shouting guided the life-boat to the yacht Rosemary V moored off Brixham Harbour. The owner was the only person on board, and he had shouted for help because his two colleagues had been thrown into the sea when the dinghy, in which they had been about to put off from the yacht, had capsized. He had got hold of both of them, and police had put out in a dinghy and helped him get them aboard. The police revived oneof the men, and the life-boat returned ashore for a doctor and put him and ambulance men aboard the yacht.

Two life-boatmen helped with artificial respiration, but the second man died.

The life-boat reached her station again at 5.15.—Rewards, £9 12s..