Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn. Two men had been on board the yacht. One had been picked up, but the other was missing. Further information was obtained, and at 8.45 the life-boat Fiji and Charles was launched in a gentle north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat carried out a search for the missing man but found only an inflated ship's raft and a lighted life-buoy, which were picked up. The life-boat reached her station at 2.10 in the morning. It was later learnt that the yacht was the 60-feet motor launch Isabella, which had become a total wreck. Relations and friends of the dead man made contri- butions to the Institution's funds..