Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1955, the police rang up to say that the 16-feet outboard motor boat Lady Luck, of Morecambe, which had put out with two men on board, was overdue.

At 5.10 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched. The sea was rough, a fresh easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat searched widely in a blizzard and found the Lady Luck anchored in Morecambe Bay and flying a distress signal. The men on board were suffering from ex- posure and had been without food for twelve hours. The life-boatmen gave them rum and hot soup and towed the boat to Heysham. The life-boat reached her station again at 12.35.

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