Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the tanker General San Martin, of Buenos Aires, had reported that several of her crew had been gassed.

They needed oxygen and the help of j a doctor. At 1.25 the life-boat ' Edmund and Mary Robinson, on. tern- porary duty at the station, was ! launched. The sea was smooth, there i was a light north-easterly breeze, and j the tide was half flood. The life-boat took with her a doctor, police, ambu- j lance men, firemen, oxygen and breath- ing apparatus and came up with the tanker two miles north of the Wyre j light. She put the men and equip- ment on board, and the doctor decided that one of the men who had been badly injured must be taken ashore for hospital treatment. The patient was ' embarked in the life-boat, which then j returned to her station, arriving at • 4.20. The man's life was saved.— Rewards to the crew. £10 3s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 16s..