Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby coastguard telephoned that she had wirelessed for help. At 4.30 the life-boat Dunleary left her moorings in a rough sea with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing and found the tanker half a mile south of the thir- teenth mile light. The tide was ebbing, and she was in no immediate danger; so the coxswain told the master that the life-boat would stand by him on the next tide. The Dunleary then re- turned, reaching her station at 7.0 that night. At 3.30 the following morning, she put out again. The sea had grown less, but there was a heavy swell with breakers on the sandbank. The tanker was founding, but still in no immediate danger. The life-boat stood by her until 7.0 and got back at her station an hour later. On the 5th December the life-boat did not go to the Inver- pool. On the morning of the 6th the tanker's cables parted and she moved two miles to the south-east, fetching up on the Long Bank. There she fired distress rockets; and at 9.15 the life- boat again left her moorings, went alongside her, and took off and landed her crew of eleven. She reached her station again at 11.0. Later on, a motor launch took the men out to their ship and brought them back again that evening. On the 7th the crew went out to her again. The life- boat crew assembled, but were not needed. The Inverpool was refloated by a tug on the 8th.—Rewards: 1st service, £9 19s.; 2nd service, £13 13*.; 8id service, £11 8s..