Swanage, Dorset.—About 3.23 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang to say that the S.S. Eptanissos, of Ithaka, had wirelessed that she had found a yacht in difficulties two miles south-east of Bournemouth and had taken her in tow. She asked for a boat to take the tow over, and at 3.28 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a heavy sea, and a strong breeze was blowing from the south-west. The life-boat made for the steamer in an ebb tide and came up with her five miles south-west of Hengistbury Head.

She found that the yacht was the racing yacht Osterling, with a crew of four, towed her to Swanage, and reached her station again at 5.45.—Rewards, £9 6*..