Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on Pye Sands and that her husband and daughter were still on board. She asked for the life-boat, and at nine o'clock the life-boat Edian Courtauld put out. The sea was slight, there was a light easterly breeze, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the yacht on the sands near High Hill buoy and stood by her until she re- floated. The second coxswain then boarded her to pilot her to Walton backwater. The life-boat remained with the yacht until she was clear of the sands and then returned to her station, arriving at midnight. The owner made gifts to the funds of the Institution and to the life-boat crew, and expressed his appreciation.—Re- wards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 11s..