AUG. 9TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.

During the evening a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of Greenock, was standing y. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea. The new motor life-boat Kate Greatorex was launched at 7 P.M. with the second-coxswain in command. She found the motor yacht Loch Maree, but the Viking had sunk and the six people who had been on board her had been taken off by the Loch Maree. The Loch Maree herself now needed help as her engines had become overheated and the owner had been overcome by the fumes. Two life-boatmen boarded the Loch Maree, and the life-boat towed her to.