Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training Wall. She was kept under observation until eight o'clock.

Then she lifted on the rising tide and appeared to be pounding on the wall.

At 8.23 the life-boat M.O.Y.E., on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a slight sea with a fresh north-westerly breeze blowing. She found the 26-feet auxiliary yawl Shona, of Lytham, two miles west of Lytham Pier, with a crew of three aboard. She had cleared the wall and was lying at anchor, but was unable to get away as her engine had broken down and she had not enough room to make sail.

The life-boat towed her to Lytham, where she was moored at 9.25.— Rewards, £4 6s..