Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 6th of March, 1956, the watchman in the navigation barge which is moored off Lytham rang up to say that he had received a message that the S.S. Monita, of Stockholm, at anchor off Nelson buoy, had a sick man on board. The Preston pilot boat had put off to attend ships entering and leaving the harbour, and it was unlikely that she would be able to bring the patient ashore quickly. At 7.15 the life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt put out with a doctor. The sea was moderate, there was a moderate south-westerly wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life- boat came up with the pilot boat, which had the sick man and the radio officer from the Monita on board, and embarked both of them. A third man, a stowaway from the Empire Gaelic, who had been transferred to the pilot boat, was also taken into the life-boat, which landed all three at Lytham at nine o'clock. The stow- away was reported to have been anxious to visit his sick mother in Ireland, but had been unable to afford the fare.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s; z-e wards to tlie helpers on shore, £2 ] 2s..