Torbay, Devon.—At 8.55 on the morn- ing of the 30th of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was burning flares south- west of Thatcher Rock. At 9.12, at high tide, the life-boat George Shee put out. The sea was calm and a squally south-westerly breeze was blowing. The life-boat found the 22-feet sailing boat Ripple, with two men on board, anchor- ed on a lee shore one and a half miles south of the rock. Her auxiliary engine had broken down. The lifeboat towed her to Brixham and reached her station again at 10.40.— Rewards. £5 6s. '.