Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Port Medical Officer advised the life- boat coxswain that the cargo vessel S.S.

Sea Minstrel, of Dover, was expected off the port at one o'clock the following morning. She had a very sick man on board and the doctor thought it un- wise for him to be left aboard until the vessel could dock at six o'clock.

At 11.45 the life-boat N.T. was launched in a moderate west-north- westerly breeze with a smooth sea running. She came up with the Sea Minstrel two miles west of Lightning Knoll Buoy. As the doctor had de- cided that the man should be trans- ferred to hospital, he was taken aboard the life-boat and landed at 2.30.— Rewards, £10 1*..