Blackpool, Lancashire.—At midnight on the 17th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported seeing two small boats, each with two men on board, off Bispham. The men were said to be shouting for help. At 12.30 early on the 18th the life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched in a rough sea.

There was a south-westerly breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat found one boat off Norbreck, rescued two men, and then found the other beat off Little Bispham. She rescued her crew of two as well and then returned to her station, arriving at 2.30.—Rewards, £8 19*. Qd..