Lytham - St. - Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.32 in the evening, on the 17th of November, 1950, the police telephoned that the S.S. Empire Gaelic had wire- lessed them. She had heard cries for help from the marshes near the third mile light on the south bank of the river Ribble. At 5.38 the Formby coastguard also telephoned. At 5.50 the life-boat Dunleary left her moorings with a dinghy in tow, in a calm sea with a light northerly breeze. She found two men, who had been wild- fowling, cut off by the tide. They were exhausted. Two life-boatmen went ashore in the dinghy and rescued them, and they were then given rum and soup. The life-boat took them to Lytham, and reached her station again at 8.10 that night.—Rewards, £11 4s..