Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning Knoll buoy. At one o'clock the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched in a moderate swell with a light north- westerly breeze blowing. She came up with the Araton at 1.50. The chief steward had severely injured three fingers in a steel door, and the life-boat landed him in the harbour.

A car took him to hospital, and the life-boat reached her station again at 3.15.—Rewards, £9 7s. 6d..