Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.31 on the afternoon of the 25th of August.

1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht seemed to be drifting off Xew Ground buoy but was not showing distress signals. The vacht was kept under observation, and at 2.48 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a rough sea. There was a moderate westerly gale blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the yacht Alamein, which had a crew of five, five miles east-by-south from the life-boat sta- tion. She took her in tow to Ports- mouth and then returned to her station, arriving at 6.45.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..