Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was cold and hazy. At 11.40 A.M.. the motor life-boat Anne Allen •was launched. She reached the vessel at 1.15 P.M., when she was about ten miles S.E. by S. of Skegness, and found her to be the sailing barge Britannic, of London, bound from London to Wells with a cargo of maize meal and carrying a crew of three. She had lost her rudder and was leaking. The life-boat rescued the crew and their dog, and reached her station again at 3.30 P.M.—Rewards, £10 14s. 6d..