Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off the defence boom at Seaview. At 12.57 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a south-westerly wind of near gale force. There was a rough sea and it was about an hourbefore high water. A helicopter also took off. The life-boat found the rowing boat and towed her to Bem- bridge, arriving at 2.14. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..