Barrow, Lancashire.—Ar two o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that a fishing boat about six miles off shore between Barrow and Heysham appeared to be drifting. He told the coxswain, who kept the boat under observation. A report was re- ceived later from the Heysham pier- head lighthouse that she appeared to be flying a flag. At 3.35. one hour before high water, the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched in a rough sea. A strong west-south-west breeze was blow- ing. The life-boat found the fishing boat Tranquillity, of Peterhead, with a crew of two, stranded on Lancaster Sands, four miles north-west of More- cambe jetty. The sea was rough and broken on the sands, but the life-boat came close to and passed a line to the boat, but she was unable to refloat her.

She therefore rescued the two men and returned to her station, arriving at 6.30.—Rewards, £8 10*. 6d..