Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At three in the morning of the 12th of October, 1948, the owner of the fishing smack Albert, of Boston, reported that the smack was to the southward, leaking, and in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 3.10. A light south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat found the fishing boat two and a half miles south of Gibraltar Point, her crew exhausted with pumping for many hours. She went alongside and some of the life-boatmen took over the pumping. At daylight the life-boat took the Albert in tow and made for Boston, with the men working the pumps throughout the journey. She berthed the fishing boat in Boston Docks, and returned to. her station, arriving at 5.10 that afternoon. The owner made a donation to the Institu- tion.—Rewards, £41 14s..