Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 18th of January, 1958, the Foreland coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south- east of Ventnor. The life-boat Eliza- beth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.16 in a rough sea. There was a strong westerly wind and it was low water. The life-boat found the yacht J.R.N., with a crew of four, one of whom was injured and lying in the cabin. He had a severe wound in the head. As it was thought safer to leave him in the cabin than to bring him out into the open and transfer him from one boat to the other, the life-boat took the yacht in tow to Bembridge and arrived at 5.45.

A boarding boat then landed the in- jured man, who was taken to hospital.

Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..