Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.— At 8.50 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1951, the life-boat motor mec- hanic reported that he had seen a yacht, apparently in distress, on the north side of the River Ribble. At 9.5 he said the yacht was flying a white flag. At 9.30 the life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt was launched on service for the first time, in a very heavy sea with a moderate south- westerly breeze blowing. She found the motor cruiser Wendy, of Preston, ashore near the Eleventh Mile Light, and pounding. She had ten people on board who had set out to go cock- ling, the seas had swamped her engine and she was in a dangerous position.

The life-boatmen rescued the ten people, gave them rum and cocoa and towed the Wendy to Lytham, arriving at 10.56 that night.—Rewards, £6 7*..