Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of September, 1953, a local trawler company reported that the steam trawler Fairway, of Hull, had an injured man on board who was in urgent need of medical attention.

The Fairway could not make harbour herself owing to the low state of the tide, and at 7.30 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched, with two ambulance men and a stretcher on board. The sea was rough, and a strong north-westerly breeze was blow- ing. The life-boat found the trawler a mile north-west of the Wyre Light, took the injured man on board and arrived back at her station at 8.20.— Rewards, £7 5s..