JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was very fine and the sea calm. At 8.10 A.M. the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched, the branch honorary treasurer, Mr. K. H. Mooring Aldridge, acting as assistant motor-mechanic. On reaching the British Inventor she found that an armed yacht had already taken off twenty-five of the crew, eight of them injured. The remainder. fifteen in number, including the master, officers and engineers, the life-boat took off. She then stood by the steamer until she was taken in tow by two Admiralty tugs, but before reaching harbour the steamer foundered at 1.30 P.M. An increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards, £3 2s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £3 ; total rewards, £6 2s. 6d.