Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.36 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to be drifting two miles south of Anvil lighthouse.

At 6.55 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a rough sea, a moderate westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was half ebb. The life- boat came up with the auxiliary cutter Solent Shirl, of Southampton, with a crew of four. The Solent Shirl had split her mainsail and a rope was entangled in her propeller. The life- boat took her in tow into Swanage bay and reached her station at 8.30.— Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..