St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Ushant radio station broad- cast that the fishing boat Gordias had found the sailing yacht Hyacinth, of Washington, U.S.A., about twelve miles west-by-north of Hanois. The Hyacinth had a crew of three, and one of them, who had been injured, had been taken on board the Gordias. The yacht had broken down, but the fishing boat left her later in the afternoon, and at 4.40 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea. The sea was very rough, a west-north-west wind was blowing, and the tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found that a naval vessel had taken the Hyacinth in tow, but the life-boat was asked to take the tow over. Two life-boatmen boarded the yacht with difficulty and found that the two men were exhausted. The life-boat towed the Hyacinth to St.

Peter Port, arriving at 3.10 on the morning of the 8th.—Rewards, £25 5s..