SEPTEMBER 3RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St. Albans Head and Durdle Door, Weymouth Bay, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at 8.10 P.M. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog.

By 9.20 P.M., in spite of the darkness and dense fog, the life-boat had found the minesweeper Ceresio on the rocks at the north side of Weymouth Bay. She stood by until daylight, and at high water got a tow rope aboard the minesweeper and pulled her bows clear of rocks. A little later the Ceresio refloated, and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.30 A.M. - Property salvage case.