ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch of the Institution, was on board his own yacht with his son of ten and Mr. Flower, a member of the Blackpool Life-boat Committee. They went at once to the rescue, and, anchoring near the sandbank, manned their punt and got safely to the stranded yacht, to find that the owner had battened himself down below decks and was waiting for the flowing tide. They took him off and then attempted to save the yacht. After buoying a line they succeeded in getting her off, but with a gale blowing against a rising tide, it was impossible to keep her in tow and she had to be cut adrift. There was great risk in approaching the sandbank in such weather, and the Institution has awarded Councillor Tatham and Mr. Flower inscribed aneroid barometers. To Councillor Tatham's son it has sent a copy of " Britain's Life-boats.".