The R.A.S.C. Petrol Barge M.O.B.4.
MARCH 18TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.35 at night the coastguard telephoned that Niton Radio had picked up a message from a steamer that a vessel off Egypt Point was asking for help. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at nine o’clock in a fresh south-south-westerly wind, with a choppy sea, and about 10.20 found the R.A.S.C. petrol barge M.O.B.4, with a crew of seven. She was then half-a-mile northwest of Ryde West Middle Buoy. Her engine had broken down, she had anchored and the anchor was dragging. The life-boat took her in tow and brought her into Yarmouth Roads at 3.30 next morning. While putting the disabled barge alongside a lighter anchored in the roads the life-boat was damaged. - Rewards, £11 7s. 6d..