Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.45 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1957, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing boat had capsized off the mouth of the river Axe and was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was launched at 9.4.

There was a gentle south-easterly breeze, with rain squalls and an ebbing tide. A dinghy with an outboard motor and a crew of two had put out from the shore, and when the life- boat reached the scene she found that the dinghy's crew had rescued one man and had dived overboard and were attempting to rescue the second.

The life-boat picked the three men up from the water, took the man who had already been rescued off the dinghy, and towed the waterlogged yacht and dinghy back to her station.

She arrived there at 10.30.—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 11*..