Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.15 P.M.

on the 9th January a message was picked up from the motor vessel Innishowen, of Chester, asking for the life-boat to convey an injured man ashore. With a crew of four she was bound with pig-iron from Barrow to Connah's Quay, and had taken shelter in Piel. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat N.T. was launched, with the second coxswain in charge, and brought ashore the man, whose head had been injured when he had been washed against the winch. On landing he was sent to hospital by ambulance.

The life-boat went out again to the vessel, but further help was not needed, and she returned at 1 A.M., and was rehoused later.—Rewards, £17 9s..