Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore, about three-quarters of a mile south of the life-boat station.

Ten minutes later the motor life-boat Cuttle reached the scene of the capsize, but there was no sign of the men. The coxswain anchored and veered down through the heavy surf. The seas were breaking over the life-boat, and the water was so shallow that at times she was bumping on the sandy bottom.

There, in the surf, she saw the upturned boat, with her net. The life-boatmen hauled the net aboard and found three men entangled in it. They tried to revive them, but without success.

There had been a fourth man in the fishing boat, but his body was not found.

It was a service of considerable danger, carried out among sandbanks and in heavy breakers with great skill, and the Institution sent special letters of appre- ciation to the coxswain and each member of the crew.—Rewards, £16 3s..