Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 4th of April, 1956, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that a dinghy, in which three people were coming ashore from the yacht Erisca in Totland Bay, had capsized. Two of those on board had reached the shore, but the third one was missing, and at i 11.20 the life-boat S.G.E. put out. [ The sea was choppy, there was a fresh northerly wind, and it was low water.

The life-boat made a search but found nothing, and the coastguard later reported that the missing man, who was the skipper, had reached Totland Bay pier. The life-boat at once went to the pier, took the skipper on board, and put him back on his yacht. The weather had by this time deteriorated, so the life-boat towed the yacht to Yarmouth, which was reached at 1.20 early on the 5th.—Rewards to the crew, £6; reward to the helper on shore, 12.9..