Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground swell and a moderate south- south-west breeze, and it was low water. The life-boat found the 32- feet yacht Saida, of Lymington, with a crew of four, aground on the south side of the Sands. Two mem- bers of the life-boat crew were put on board, and the life-boat towed her to Exmouth docks, arriving at 3.30.— Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £13 8s..