Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1954, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had gone ashore about two and a half miles north- north-east of Needles, but that she was in no immediate danger. At 6.19 the coastguard stated that she had burnt a red flare, and at 6.36 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea was rough and a moderate breeze was blowing from the south-west. She made for the position in a flooding tide and found the yacht Trenchemer, with a crew of three, on Shingles Bank.

The life-boat stood by her until she refloated and got clear under her own power, and then escorted her to Yarmouth, reaching her station again at 8.45.—Rewards, £7 ]*. 6d..