AUGUST 12TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

At 4.5 in the morning a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a yacht was drifting dangerously near the rocks on the southern shore. A south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was very rough.

Another message came that a second yacht was in difficulties. The motor life-boat The Brothers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 4.15. She found the Dutch ocean-going racing yacht Zeearend on the rocks, but she refloated and the life-boat escorted her to Barbican and there beached her. She then went out again to the second yacht, the Valeria, and escorted her to harbour. She found a third yacht, the motor yacht Ellora, at anchor near the breakwater and advised her to move to a safer anchorage.

She returned to her station at 7.15. - Rewards, £6 13s..