Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.

on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.

breeze was blowing, but the sea was rough. The reserve motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Glads wood, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 8.20 P.M. Within seven minutes the life-boat reached the canoe and found that a young woman had swum out to the boy, who could not swim, and was holding him up. They were hanging on to the bottom of the canoe, both exhausted and suffering from shock and cold. The life-boat took them on board, recovered the canoe and returned to her station at 9.10 P.M.

The Royal Humane Society awarded the young woman, Miss Ethel Steward, its bronze medal and certificate.— Rewards, £25 2*. 6d..