Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robin- son, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a moderate south-westerly breeze, and the tide was flooding.

The Wyke Regis coastguard later stated that the yacht had been re- floated. The life-boat came up with the auxiliary yacht Kastag, of Bosham, which had taken the two people on board, to the west of St. Aldhelm's Race. She then towed the Kastag to Swanage and reached her station again at 7.50.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..