JULY 18TH. - FENIT,. CO. KERRY. On the 13th of July the sailing yacht Penta, of Glasgow, had anchored about 500 yards eastsouth- east of the pier at Fenit. She had on board her owner, his wife and their maid.

On the 18th a very strong south-east gale began to blow, raising a short steep sea.

The yacht began to drag towards the shore, and at eleven in the morning the motor lifeboat Peter and Sarah Blake was launched.

She went alongside the Penta, but the owner waved her off, as both the life-boat and the Penta were pitching heavily. The life-boat then went ahead, and fired her line-throwing gun. In this way a tow rope was passed on board, but the Penta was unable to cast off her moorings and the life-boat drifted to lee-ward and had to let go the tow rope. She recovered it and anchored 50 to 60 yards ahead of the Penta, awaiting a signal. When this was made the life-boat steamed slowly ahead, but the owner on the fore-deck seemed to collapse, and he did not cast off the moorings. The next minute the maid was thrown over the side by the tow-rope, and the owner dived into the sea to her help.

The life-boat cut its rope to be free to pick them up if they were carried clear of the yacht. But both held on to the Penta’s bowsprit bob-stay. Then the maid climbed aboard, but the owner let go his hold and drifted away. The life-boat came round at once, and put three men in her boarding boat, which was moored close by. They picked up the owner, unconscious, and pulled ashore, but all attempts to revive him failed.

Meanwhile the second-coxswain had caught his thumb between a stanchion of the lifeboat and the towing-rope and they had severed it at the first joint. The life-boat at once put him ashore at the pier. She then returned to the Penta, rescued the two women, and brought them ashore at three o’clock. During the evening the life-boat towed the Penta to the pier. - Rewards : first service, £4 12s. ; second service, £8 19s. 6d.

Compensation was made to the secondcoxswain..