AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly out to sea. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with squalls, and the sea was choppy.

The motor life-boat. Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 12.15 P.M., Mr. D. McKibbin going out as a member of the crew. Two men in a rowing boat had also put out to the rescue. The life-boat found the yacht Penguin and the small boat. Both were in danger She took all four people aboard, and the yacht and the rowing boat in tow, and landed them at a bay in Mill isle. She returned to her station at 1.45 P.M. - Rewards, £3 17s. 6d.