Wells, Norfolk.—At ten o'clock on the evening of the 28th of May, 1956, a yacht was seen to be in difficulties north-east of Wells. At 10.30 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched.

The sea was smooth, a moderate east- south-easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. She found the yacht Wire, of Glasgow, with one person on board a mile and a half east-north-east of Wells bar. Her mainsail was damaged, and her auxili- ary engine had broken down. The life-boat towed the Wire to the har- bour, arriving there at 11.58.—Re- wards to the crew, £6 12s.; rewards to :the helpers on shore, £11 4s..