Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1954, the St. Aldhelm's Head coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties about two miles east of the Head. At six o'clock the life- boat R. L. P. was launched. The sea was calm, and a light breeze was blowing from the west-south-west.

The life-boat found the converted ship's boat Dorothy, with two men on board, bound for Wareham from Weymouth. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Swanage Bay and reached her station again at 6.50.—Rewards, £6 15s..