LIFE-BOAT FINDS BODY THE recovery of charred wreckage and other evidence by the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon—a 46-foot 9-inch Watson type —pointed to an explosion aboard the French yacht Marie Grillon reported missing on 10th July with four people aboard.

It was at 1.45 p.m. that the life-boat set out to search in the area between Jersey and the Minquier reef. At 10.10 the search was called off in failing light and some time before—at 9.30 p.m.—a French vessel picked up the bodies of the two women who had been aboard the yacht.

At 5.15 a.m. next day the life-boat resumed the search and at 11.22 a.m. the body of one of the missing men was found seven miles south of Jersey. Twenty minutes later the body of the second man was picked up..