Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1955, a woman at Norton telephoned that a vessel was burning flares near Black Rock. The vessel was the M.F.V. No. 51, of the Water Trans- port Section of the Royal Army Service Corps. At 8.10 the life-boat S.G.E. put out with the skipper of the M.F.V. and a member of her crew, who had both been on shore. The sea was very rough, an easterly gale was blowing, and the tide was half ebb.

The life-boat found that the M.F.V., which had three men on board, was dragging her moorings west of the harbour. The life-boat put the skip- per and the man on board, and they were able, with the help of the three other men, to let go an anchor. The life-boat remained with the M.F.V.

until it was seen that her anchor was holding, and then returned to her station, arriving at 9.40.—Rewards, £7 8s..