Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.40 in the afternoon, on the 17th of July, 1950, the Skegness police reported two rubber dinghies adrift off Huttoft. At two o'clock the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze and smooth sea. At 3.20 she picked up a boy in a rubber dinghy two miles off shore. He said that his father and brother were adrift on an inflated motor tyre. Half an hour later the life-boat found the father on the tyre, exhausted. Then news was received by wireless that the other boy was safe ashore. The life-boat there- fore made for Chapel, and landed the rescued, returning to Skegness by 5.15.

The sister of the rescued man sent a letter of thanks and made a donation.

—Rewards, £13 11s..