Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red flares were being fired from her.

The police told the deputy honorary secretary, and at 2.25 the life-boat Fiji and Charles, with the second coxswain in command, was launched. There was a moderate sea, with a moderate west- north-westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Lady Alicia, with eight people on board, on passage from Bath. The owner was unconscious and everyone else on board was overcome by engine fumes and sea sickness. The engine had stopped, and no one was able to start it. The life-boat took the Lady Alicia in tow and reached her station at four o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5. 16s..