Barrow, Lancashire.—At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1952, a motor-cyclist arrived at the life-boat station and reported that a canoe with a boy clinging to it was being carried out to sea off Newbiggin, about five miles north-east of the life-boat station.

Ten minutes later the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched in a choppy sea, with a light north-westerly wind blow- ing, and picked up a home-made canvas canoe, about one and a half miles off Newbiggin. The search for the boy continued until 2.50, when it was learned that he was safe. He had swum out to try to recover the canoe which was adrift, but had had to abandon it. He had then been escort- ed ashore by another bather, who had gone to help him. The life-boat reached her station again at 3.45.— Rewards, £7 10s..