Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.

on the 26th October, 1939, the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon.

She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of the Central Pier, and seemed to be in difficulties. A moderate northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched, and found the motor boat Albion, of Fleetwood, with a crew of three on board, unable to beat up against the wind. The life-boat towed her to Lune Deeps, and returned to her station at 7.30 P.M. The owner sent a letter of thanks.—Rewards, £16 Is. 6d..