Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 7th of August, 1955, a message was received from the harbour office that the local yacht Regina had put off with a crew of two, and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the ebbing tide. Twenty minutes later the coast- guard telephoned that he had seen the yacht drifting southwards towards Smethwick Sands. At 12.22 the life- boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched. There was a heavy sea, and a fresh gale was blowing from the north-west. The life-boat made for the sands and obtained the position of the yacht from a coaster. She found that the Regina had driven right across the sands to a position three and a half miles south-south-west of Flamborough lighthouse. The life- boat went over the sands and rescued her crew. She then took the yacht in tow, but the yacht was nearly full of water and a little later she sank. The life-boat landed the rescued men at her station at three o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 13s..