JUNE 30TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 1.40 in the morning a telephone message came from the relatives of three young men who had left Keyhaven during the afternoon for a trip in a small yacht and had not returned. The motor life-boat S.G.E.

was launched at 2.30. A fresh south-westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat, with her searchlight, searched for four hours, and it was not until 6.30 that she found the yacht stranded at the mouth of Hawkers Lake, a mile east of Hurst Lighthouse.

In the shallow water the life-boat could not get alongside and the yacht’s crew shouted that they could manage themselves, but would like some food. The life-boat returned to Yarmouth and, after telephoning the relatives, took a dinghy in tow and returned to the yacht. She passed provisions to her crew, but they firmly refused to leave, so the life-boat laid out an anchor to enable them to haul the yacht off at high tide. She reached her station again at nine o’clock that morning and the yacht got back to Keyhaven just before noon. A letter of appreciation was received and a donation to the Institution.

- Rewards, £11 18s. 6d..