AUGUST 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned information, received from the S.S. Thelma, through Land’s End Radio, that a yacht was four miles north of Grassholm, with her sails blown away. A fresh south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 2.45. The honorary secretary of the life-boat station, Dr. .Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., the organist of St. David’s Cathedral, went with her. The life-boat found the auxiliary yacht Forban, of London, near Haroldstone Cliffs. She had five people on board, two of them children.

It was too rough to take them off. The life-boat towed the yacht first to Goultrop Roads, and in the shelter there it was possible to do it. They were given dry clothes and rum, and two life-boatmen were put on board the yacht. The tow continued to the entrance to Solva harbour. There, in the heavy seas, the yacht broke adrift three times, but eventually the life-boat brought her into St.

David’s, and moored her at the quayside at 9.30 that night.

The life-boat crew claimed, and were paid, salvage for the yacht. In such cases no rewards are given by the Institution. In this case, however, the Institution decided to make a special reward of £2 10s. to each member of the crew for the first part of the service in which the lives were rescued. It also highly commended Dr. Soar. Special rewards to crew, £17 10s., and property salvage case.