Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a bather was being washed out to sea off Winthorpe Avenue, north of Skeg- ness pier. At five o'clock the life- boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground swell. There was a light north-easterly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat searched the area in company with a helicopter and found the body of a girl two hun- dred yards off shore. The life-boat returned to her station with the body of the girl on board, arriving at 6.35.

—Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £5 Is..