Torbay, Devon.—At 8.59 on the even- ing of the 26th of October, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that two red flares had been seen between three and four miles off Coombe Point.

At 9.25 the life-boat George Shee put out. The sea was heavy, and a strong south-south-west breeze was blowing.

The life-boat made for the position in an ebbing tide and found the 20-feet yacht Moon Raker, of Salcombe, with the owner, his wife and three-year-old son on board, three miles south of Coombe Point. Their auxiliary engine had run out of fuel and they were trying to reach Dartmouth under sail, but the yacht was making heavy weather. With difficulty the life-boat towed the yacht to Brixham and reached her station again at 12.45 early on the 27th.—Rewards, £11 8s..