Workington, Cumberland.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 5th of July, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard reported that a vessel was aground in the harbour entrance. The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out at eight o'clock to help a tug refloat the vessel. The sea was rough, there was a moderate south-westerly gale and the tide was flooding. The vessel, which was the Costa Rican steamer Carmen, with a crew of twenty-three, had refloated under her own power, but she was making water and it was decided to beach her north of the channel en- trance. Sixteen of her crew were landed by the life-boat. Subsequent trips from the 6th to 12th of July were carried out by the life-boat to convey a surveyor to the Carmen, as because of the weather conditions the life-boat was the only boat that could get along- side her. A donation was made to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £110 13s..