Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported two boys drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off Seaton Carew. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at one o'clock. There was a smooth sea and a moderate west- south-westerly breeze, and it was low water. Information was received that the two boys had been picked up by a shore boat from Seaton. The life- boat, which had picked up the rubber dinghy, was recalled and arrived back at her station at 1.45.—Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..