JULY 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 9.43 in the morning the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that there was a boat about two miles off shore, and, a few minutes later, that she was hove to and showing a distress signal. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.15 in a freshening northwesterly wind, with a moderate sea. She found the motor boat Zamaya, of Dartmouth, at anchor, with her engines broken down.

She was an old Spanish life-boat, and had on board two men and a dog. The men, who were the owners, were going to have her converted into a pleasure boat. The lifeboat took them and their dog on board, and with their boat in tow arrived at Weymouth at 2.30 that afternoon. The men made a donation to the Institution. - Rewards, £5.