Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station.

A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was kept under observation and at 1.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that the boys appeared to be exhausted. The No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 1.30 P.M. She took the five boys on board and with the boat in tow arrived back at her station at 2.15 P.M. —Rewards, £8 14s.