Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1951, the police reported that a rubber dinghy with six people in it was drift- ing out to sea off Ingoldmells Point.

At 7.10 the life-boat Anne Allen was launched, accompanied by the honor- ary secretary, the Rev. F. J. Wood.

The sea was choppy, with a fresh south-south-west breeze blowing. She found the dinghy two and a half miles north-north-east of Skegness pier and rescued two men, three women and a boy (holidaymakers from Ingoldmells Point), then she tcok the dinghy on board and reached her station again at 8.30. A youth had previously swum out to the dinghy, but saw the life- boat coming, and exhausted returned to the shore. Two of _the rescued made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards, £8 17s..