Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 1.25 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a motor boat was ashore south-west of St. Anne's Pier. She was pounding in the surf on Salters Bank, half a mile north of Salters Buoy. The life-boat M.O.Y.E., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.55 in a swell with a west-south-westerly breeze blowing, with Mr. John Kennedy, the station honorary secretary, on board.

The boat was found to be the 10-ton motor yacht Valchris, of Lytham, with a party of six on board. At her owner's request the life-boat stood by until she floated clear on the rising tide, and then piloted her into deep water. She had been damaged while pounding on the sands, and the life- boat escorted her to Lytham. The life-boat arrived back at 3.45.— Rewards, £5 17s..