Plymouth, South Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of June, 1956, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out from her ] moorings on an exercise in a smooth sea. A fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding. When the life-boat was half-way across Plymouth Sound a yacht was seen broadside on to the breakwater. The coxswain altered course and came up with the yacht Moana. Her owner had been sailing the yacht round the Devon coast and had reached Cawsand on the loth of June. A stiff wind had blown up on the following night, and in seeking the shelter of the breakwater the yacht had gone aground in the early hours of the 17th of June. The life-boat picked up a lighthouse-keeper, who had gone aboard the yacht to help, and who had hurt both his hands.

The motor mechanic rendered first aid.

The Moana, with the owner and two members of the life-boat crew aboard her, was then taken in tow to a ship- builder's yard at Cremyll. The life- boat returned to her moorings, arriv- ing there at 12.10. The owner thanked the crew and made a donation to the funds of the Institution.— Rewards to the crew, £10 16s..