Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.36 on the evening of the 14th of September, ] 957, the Foreland coastguard reported that a sailing boat appeared to be sig- nalling S.O.S. The life-boat Jesse Litmb was launched at 8.50 in a moder- ate sea. There was a moderate north- westerly breeze and the tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the Cornish lugger Kindly Light, of Bembridge, which had a crew of four, and found that her engine had broken down. She towed her to Bembridge and arrived back at her station at 10.5.

—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5,9..