Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.

The coastguard telephoned the life- boat station two minutes later. At 2.42 the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched. There was a slight sea and a strong west-south- west breeze. A drifter picked up the boys, and the life-boat made for her station again. At the harbour she found the fishing boat Mohawk washaving difficulty in entering. She towed her in and reached her station again at 4.45.—Rewards, £6 5s. 6d..