Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 11.20 on the night of the 8th of May, 1948, the police telephoned that flares had been seen. At 11.45 what appeared to be oil burning on the water could be seen, and at 12.13 the motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched in a light south-easterly breeze with a calm sea.

She found the fishing boat Ltuma, of Fleetwood, about one mile south-west of Central pier. She was sinking.

The life-boat rescued her crew of two and towed her to shallow water.

There she was left at anchor and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 1.35 in the morning.—Rewards, £8 8*..