Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several yachts found them- selves in difficulties. Two yachts capsized and a third was dismasted.

The life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched at 3.40 in a rough sea. There was a moderate southerly gale with rain squalls and an ebb tide. The life-boat took the yacht Daybreak, with a crew of three, in tow and made for the pleasure steamer Glen Usk, which was standing by the capsized yacht Daymate. The life-boat picked up the Daymate's crew of three out of the water, but the life-boat's propeller was fouled by the yacht's rigging. The motor boat Doris therefore towed the Daymate to the shore, and the third yacht was towed in by the motor boat Sirious. The life-boat reached her station at 6.5. The owner of one of the yachts made a donation to the Institu- tion funds. Rewards to the crew, £8. 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5. 3s..