JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a yacht,, flying distress signals, was in the north channel near Hurst. A strong west-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. At 4.35 the motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched and found the yacht with one man on board.

Both her anchors were out. They could not be hauled up as her engine had broken down.

Life-boatmen boarded the yacht, heaved in one anchor and buoyed and slipped the other.

The life-boat then towed the yacht into Yarmouth harbour, and arrived back at her station at 7.15. - Property salvage case..