Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.17 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy, with two boys on board, had capsized in Portland harbour, about a quarter of a mile off Sandsfoot Castle, and that one of the boys had swum ashore. At 9.30 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary dutyat the station, put out in a choppy sea, with a strong south-westerly breeze blowing. She searched for the other boy in an ebb tide, but did not find him.

She then took the dinghy on board and returned to Weymouth, reaching her station again at 12.20 early on the 9th.—Rewards, £7 Is. 6d..