Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea was very heavy, a south-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the yacht Yana, with a crew of two, seventeen miles south-east of Weymouth pier. Her sails were torn and her engine was broken down. The yachtsmen passed a line to the life- boat and she started towing, but the rope parted. The life-boatmen then passed their rope across, and with difficulty in the heavy seas the life- boat towed the yacht to Swanage, arriving at 10.20. The life-boat reached her station again at 3.15 on the morning of the 18th.—Property Salvage Case..