Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the harbour master telephoned that a man had been seen waist-deep in the sea on the training wall on the east side of the Walney channel, The wall was a quarter of a mile south of Ramsden dock, and a boat had put out from a dredger. The boat had been unable to reach the man because of the weather and had made fast to a buoy. At nine o'clock the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched. The sea was rough, a fresh gale was blowing from east-by-south, and it was high water. The life-boat found that the man was standing on his sunken boat, a converted ship's boat called the David Nancy, and approached him from the western side of the training wall. The man floated over the wall with the help of a buoyancy tank from his boat, and he was hauled aboard the life-boat. He had been in the sea for an hour and a half. The life-boatmen gave him soup and rum, towed the dredger's boat to Ramsden dock, and reached Barrow again at ten o'clock.—Rewards, £8 17s. Qd..