Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 15th of January, 1954, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the man in the Ribble navigation barge Musgrave, moored three quarters of a mile west of Lytham pier, had reported that the barge was sinking. At 10.50 the life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt put to sea, taking her boarding boat with her. The sea was rough, with a strong gale blowing from west-by- north. The life-boat found that the barge had sunk and that the man was clinging to her rigging. The life-boat rescued him, and the boarding boat took him ashore, where an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 12.15.—Rewards £9 15s..