Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.30 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1954, a boatman reported that while he had been in his boat on a pleasure trip from the Naze to Walton River with passengers on board, he had seen a yacht go ashore on Old Stone Point at the west end of the Pye Sands.

After further enquiries had been made, the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out at 10.30, taking a dinghy with her.

There was a moderate sea, a light easterly breeze and a flood tide. The life-boat found the 15-ton yacht Dus- marie, of Colchester, with the owner, his wife and three children on board, bound for Hamford Water. Using the dinghy, the life-boatmen made a rope fast to her and the life-boat pulled her clear and towed her to the entrance of Hamford Water. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5.30 on the morning of the 5th. The owner made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Re- wards, £21 11s..