Dover, Kent.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1954, a message was received from Lloyd's Signal Station that a dismasted yacht had been seen south of the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 2.15 the life-boat Southern Africa put out. The sea was very rough, a moderate gale was blowing from the south-west, and it was high water. An aircraft guided the life-boat to a position eight miles east of the East Goodwin lightvessel, and there the life-boat found the yacht Barnklet, of Burnham. A life-boat- man boarded her, but he found no one aboard, and the life-boat towed the yacht to Ramsgate, reaching her station again at 2.10 early on the morning of the 19th. A man had chartered the yacht for a trip to Boulogne, but a French steamer had taken her in tow in the bad weather.

The mast had broken, and the steamer had rescued the man and left the yacht.—Property Salvage Case..