JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at Beaumaris.

They soon ran into bad weather, a fresh gale from the south-west, with very rough seas. Their jib sail was damaged, their mainsail gave trouble, and they put up distress signals when about eight miles west of the Bar lightship. The S.S. Rockabill saw the signals and stood by the yacht, but was unable to help her, so signalled by lamp to the liner Franconia, which reported the signal by wireless to Seaforth Radio Station. The information was passed by the coastguard to the life-boat stations at Llandudno and New Brighton.

The Llandudno motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched at 1.30 in the afternoon, and the New Brighton No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson at 3.45. It was the New Bright on boat which found the Gannet. When abreast of C4 Red Buoy she saw the yacht a mile and a half to the south-east, and drifting eastwards. At 5.40 the life-boat went alongside and took off the three men, by now exhausted. She then fixed a tow rope to the yacht. About an hour later the rope parted and the yacht drifted away. With great difficulty in the heavy seas the life-boat fixed another rope and slowly towed the yacht into the channel, and up to New Brighton Stage, where she arrived at 10.15 that night. Here she landed the men and attached the yacht to the No. 1 life-boat’s moorings. The Llandudno life-boat reached her station again at six in the evening. - Rewards : New Brighton, £18 18s. 6d. ; Llandudno, £8 8s. 6d.