Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had fallen down a hold, seriously injuring himself, and that the Preston pilot boat had taken him on board. The Perm asked if the life-boat would put off with a doctor and meet the pilot boat off the Gut Gas buoy in the Ribble estuary. At 5.43 the life-boat Sarah Toicnsend Porritt embarked a doctor and left her moorings. The sea was moderate, there was a swell and a light south- easterly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat put the doctor aboard the pilot boat, but there was too much swell to allow the injured ! man to be taken on board. The life- • boat therefore accompanied the pilot boat to a calmer position three quarters of a mile west of Lytham pier, where the man was transferred to thelife-boat. The life-boat then returned to her moorings at 7.40, and the patient was taken ashore in the life- boat's boarding boat.-—Rewards to the crew, £7; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 55..