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Maze

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to have cap- sized three miles south-south-east of Portland Bill. At two o'clock the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out in a very rough sea and a westerly gale. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found the yacht Maze, of Rotterdam, a mile and a half off Church Hope Cove. She had a crew of five. Her mainmast had blown away, and she was depending on her mizzen. The life-boat escorted her to Weymouth harbour, arriving at 6.25.

—Rewards to the crew, £11 4s.; reward to the helper on shore, 125..