St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1957, the Telegraph coastguard report- ed that a sailing dinghy had capsized between St. Mary's and St. Martin's and that two boys were in the water.

The coastguard had asked a steamer, which had just left St. Mary's, to keep a look-out for the boys. At 3.33 the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched. She began to search in a very rough sea, with a strong west-south-westerly gale blow- ing and heavy rain squalls. The tide was flooding. She made for Crow Sound and came up with the steamer, which reported that she had seen the boys on a small island. A small motor dinghy, in which the father of the children was searching, arrived on the scene, and the steamer picked him up and towed his boat to the lee of the island. The life-boat had by now also reached the island and found that there were, in fact, three boys and a girl from two capsized sailing dinghies on it. The life-boat took all the children on board and landed them at St. Mary's, where an ambulance was waiting, at 5.15. Several passenger boats were still at sea, and it was decided that the life-boat should put off again to St. Martin's, where there was a boat with twenty visitors on board. However, the skipper of the boat decided to remain at St. Martin's for the night.

The weather was becoming worse, and as the life-boat was leaving for St. Martin's about 5.30 a small motor boat was seen putting off in the direc- tion of Tresco. Shortly afterwards, when the life-boat was returning fromSt. Martin's, the motor boat was seen to be burning flares. She had eight people aboard and had broken down.

The life-boat towed her to Old Grimsby harbour and reached her station again at seven o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £14 17s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 5s..