SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 4.15 in the afternoon the Wyke Regis coastguard reported two boats in distress off Grove Point, Portland. A full north-west gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 4.20 and found the motor boat O. B. Joyful, and another small boat two miles east of Grove Point, Portland.

They had three men on board. She towed them into Weymouth, arriving at 6.30.- Rewards, £4 12s..