Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat coxswain received a link telephone call from the Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which was undergoing gunnery trials in the Irish Sea, that a workman on board was bleeding internally and that she wished to land him. No other boat was available, and at 12.50 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched in a slight sea with a light northerly breeze blow- ing. She came up with the destroyer off Lightning Knoll Buoy and took the man ashore, reaching her station again at 2.50.—Rewards, £5 12s. 6d..