AUGUST 31ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.

At 5.40 in the afternoon the commanding officer of a local army unit reported that one of his officers, and a bombardier, had gone out for a sail in a dinghy, but appeared to be in difficulties, and at 6.30 the Watchet harbourmaster telephoned that the boat had last been seen six miles off-shore and close to the Culver Sands in a dangerous position. A light southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Kate Greatorex was launched at seven o’clock and found the dinghy ten miles to the north-east with the two men exhausted.

She rescued them, gave them rum and biscuits, took their dinghy in tow, and reached her station again at ten that night. - Rewards, £13 19s..