Humber, Yorkshire.—At three o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that the yacht Kayak, of Beverley, had gone ashore between Spurn Point and Kilnsea at one o'clock, and was now high and dry. During the morning the owner asked for the help of the life- boat to pull his yacht clear, but first of all, on the advice of the coxswain, he tried to refloat her himself. He was unsuccessful, and at nine o'clock at night he again asked for the life-boat.

At 12.4 on the 31st the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched. The sea was smooth, there was a light north-north-east breeze, and it was two hours before high water. The life-boat found the Kayak, which had a crew of three, two miles north-east of Spurn lighthouse, pulled her into deep water, and then returned to her station, arriving at three o'clock in the morning.—No expense to the In- stitution..