Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the crew of two of the yacht Osiris, of Beaumaris, had made their yacht fast to the Morecambe Bay light- vessel because of the bad weather and had been taken aboard the lightvessel.

The yacht broke adrift soon after- wards, and it was decided that the life-boat should put off the next morn- ing and land the yacht's crew. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 31st the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a rough sea, with a strong west-north-west wind blowing and an ebbing tide. She reached the lightvessel at 11.25, took the yachts- men on board, and landed them at her station at 1.45. The Osiris was towed in by a coaster.—Rewards to the crew, £11 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 4s. The owner made a gift to the Institution's funds..